André Bormanis (born 13 February 1959; age 65) was the science consultant on the seventh season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and for all of both Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. He served as story editor on the first season, as executive story editor on the third season, and as co-producer on the fourth season of Star Trek: Enterprise. In addition he wrote and co-wrote several episodes of Voyager and Enterprise and served as technical adviser on Star Trek: Insurrection.
He has written the book Star Trek Science Logs, served as technical adviser for the reference book Star Trek: Star Charts in 2002, and was interviewed for several DVD special features and Trek magazines. Bormanis was also among the Enterprise staff and crewmembers who appeared in the final episode "These Are the Voyages...", where he portrayed a civilian ceremony attendee. He hosted the television documentary The Science of Star Trek in 1995 with Bill Kurtis and was interviewed for the 2005 documentary How William Shatner Changed the World, hosted and narrated by William Shatner. He also contributed to the reference book New Worlds, New Civilizations and wrote the planetarium show for the Griffith Observatory. His name was referenced on screen two times; A. Bormanis in Enterprise and André Bormanis (Starfleet) in Star Trek: Voyager.
Career outside Star Trek[]
Bormanis was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in Arizona. He earned a Masters Degree at the George Washington University and has worked in astronomy research and design.
Bormanis served as producer for Threshold (2005-2006), alongside Brannon Braga, Michael Sussman, and David Livingston. He also wrote the story for the fifth episode Shock, which starred Brent Spiner. Between 2008 and 2009 he served as producer for Eleventh Hour for which he also wrote two episodes. In 2010, Bormanis served as a supervising producer on Legend of the Seeker, on which Michael Sussman was a co-executive producer and Kenneth Biller an executive producer.
In 2017 Bormanis rejoined Executive Producer Braga as technical consultant on Seth MacFarlane's The Orville for Fox TV, a science fiction series heavily inspired by, and intended as a homage to, Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Star Trek credits[]
- As writer
- VOY:
- "Fair Trade" (teleplay)
- "Waking Moments"
- "Demon" (story)
- "Riddles" (story)
- "Imperfection" (story)
- "Nightingale" (teleplay)
- "Human Error" (teleplay with Brannon Braga, story with Kenneth Biller)
- ENT:
- "Silent Enemy"
- "Desert Crossing" (teleplay, story with Rick Berman and Brannon Braga)
- "The Communicator" (teleplay)
- "The Crossing" (story with Rick Berman and Brannon Braga)
- "Horizon"
- "Extinction"
- "Hatchery" (teleplay, story with Michael Sussman)
- "Countdown" (with Chris Black)
- "Awakening"
- "Babel One" (with Mike Sussman)
- "The Aenar" (teleplay)
- "Terra Prime" (story with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens)
- VOY:
- As story editor
- ENT:
- "Acquisition"
- "Oasis"
- "Detained"
- "Vox Sola"
- "Fallen Hero"
- "Desert Crossing"
- "Two Days and Two Nights"
- "Shockwave"
- ENT:
- As science consultant
Interviews and articles[]
- Star Trek DVDs (specials Real Science with Andre Bormanis, unless otherwise noticed)
- VOY Season 1 DVD, interviewed on 31 March 2003
- VOY Season 2 DVD
- VOY Season 3 DVD
- VOY Season 6 DVD – special "One Small Step: The Mars Encounter"
- VOY Season 7 DVD
- Star Trek magazines
- Star Trek: Communicator issue 113 (1997)
- Star Trek Monthly issue 25 (1997) – interviewed by James Swallow
- Star Trek Monthly issue 51 (1999)
- Star Trek Monthly issue 66 – article "The Appliance of Science" (2000)
- Star Trek Monthly issue 74 (2000)
- Star Trek Monthly issue 77 (2001)
- Star Trek Monthly issue 78 – article "Six on Seven" (2001)
- Star Trek Monthly issue 95 – article "The Appliance of Science" (2002)
- Star Trek Magazine issue 121 – article "Inventing 22nd Century Science" (2005)
- Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 4 (1999) – article "My Star Trek Memories"
- Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 6 (1999)
- Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 7 (1999)
- Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 8 (1999)
- Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 11 (2000)
- Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 12 (2000)
- Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 18 (2000)
- Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 19 – article "Star Trek Science: Life on the Rocks: Silicon and Other Life Forms" (2000)
- Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 22 – article "Star Trek Science: Particle Power" (2001)
- Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 5 (2001)
- Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 6 – article "Getting a Grip on Gravity" (2001)
- Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 9 (2002)
- Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 10 (2002)