Nick Sagan

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Nick Sagan in 2018

Nick Sagan (born September 16, 1970 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American writer and screenwriter .

biography

Nick Sagan is the son of astronomer Carl Sagan and was involved in a memorable achievement at the age of seven.

When the space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were sent into space in 1977 , a plate was also sent with the aid of which sounds from Earth, music and recordings, as well as greetings to any extraterrestrials that might be present, were to be sent. On this Voyager Golden Record one could also hear the voice of a boy saying the sentence: “Hello, from the children of planet earth!” That boy was Nicholas Sagan.

Not wanting to follow in his father's footsteps, Sagan, who attended the Mirman School in Bel Air for gifted children, left high school to study film at the University of California at Los Angeles . He graduated summa cum laude . He then worked for various film producers and studios, including Paramount , Warner Bros. , Disney , New Line and Universal .

In 1992, his first script for a US animation series was produced. Although Sagan also wrote for other series (including an episode of the SF series Space Cops - Tatort Demeter City , which also aired in Germany ), the seven scripts he wrote for Spaceship Enterprise: The Next Century and Star Trek: Spaceship Voyager remained the most famous. He was also instrumental in the computer games Zork Nemesis (1996) and OurColony (2005).

Nicholas Sagan also writes science fiction novels. So far only Idlewild (German title: Das Ende ) has been published in German.

He is married and has no children.

Trivia

Roland Emmerich paid him tribute in the context of his film in 2012 by having a certain Nick Sagan write the foreword to the (fictional) novel Farewell Atlantis by the protagonist Jackson Curtis.

Works

TV work

  • Star Trek: The Next Generation (seventh season, 1993-1994)
    • "Attached" (German contacts )
    • "Bloodlines" (Eng. Bok's retribution )
  • Star Trek: Voyager (fifth season, 1998–1999)
    • "In the Flesh" (Eng. In flesh and blood )
    • "Gravity" with Bryan Fuller (Ger. Heavy )
    • "Course: Oblivion", with Bryan Fuller (German terminus - oblivion )
    • "Juggernaut", with Kenneth Biller & Bryan Fuller (German: devastating violence )
    • "Relativity", with Bryan Fuller & Michael Taylor (German Timeship Relativity )

Novels

  • 2003: Idlewild (German: The End , 2007 by Seeliger Verlag AG)
  • 2004: Edenborn
  • 2006: Everfree

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated September 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.farewellatlantis.com

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personal data
SURNAME Sagan, Nick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts , USA