December 24: Happy Birthday Nicholas Meyer

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Nicholas Meyer was born on this date in 1945. He attended the University of Iowa, where he studied theater and film and contributed to the student newspaper. His first screenplay, Invasion of the Bee Girls, was filmed in 1973. But it was a year later that Meyer first became well known—as a novelist. His Sherlock Holmes pastiche, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution—a tale of Dr. Watson securing the aid of Sigmund Freud to cure Holmes of his cocaine addiction—became a bestseller. Meyer subsequently wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay of the film adaptation, and wrote two sequel novels, The West End Horror and The Canary Trainer. In 1979, Meyer made his directing debut (as well as writing the screenplay) with the time travel sci-fi film Time After Time.

In 1982, Meyer commenced what is certainly the most significant contribution he has made to popular culture, when he was hired as the director for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. He also wrote the film’s shooting script, although he did not receive a writing credit. He went on to co-write the screenplay for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and then directed and co-wrote Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Many readers of this blog would probably agree that they are the three best Star Trek films ever made.


Meyer has keep fairly busy in the last 25 years or so. He’s done a fair amount of screenwriting—screenplays for films like Sommersby, The Human Stain, along with script doctoring (including working on Tomorrow Never Dies). He’s been involved in a variety of TV movies and miniseries, as either a director, writer or producer, including the Emmy-nominated miniseries The Odyssey. Recently he has returned to involvement with Star Trek, as a consulting producer on Star Trek: Discovery.