Star Trek: TNG - Season 2 Dec 4

[Maxwell Everett]

Originally Posted by jw007

Season 2 of TNG started coming together with a few good episodes but obviously it was later in Season 3 when it really started clicking. I think when Michael Piller and Brannon Braga came aboard, that is when TNG became brilliant.

I think you may mean Michael Piller and Ronald D. Moore. Moore's spec script for Season 3's "The Bonding" got him hired as story editor beginning with "Sins of the Father." Moore went from executive story editor to co-producer between Seasons 4 and 5.

Brannon Braga started as a summer intern between Seasons 3 and 4 and his first writing credit was "Reunion" which he wrote with Moore. Then he wrote "Identity Crisis" while still technically an intern. He didn't actually get a full-time staff position until Season 5 and the first assignment he was given after being hired on was "The Game." He then became a story editor (along with Rene Echevarria) during Season 6.