{{Short description|American screenwriter and television producer}} '''Morgan Adley Gendel''' (born 1952) is an American screenwriter and television producer from West Hartford, Connecticut.
==Career== Gendel served as co-executive producer for the fourth season of the CW sci-fi series, ''The 100''.<ref name=TrekMovie>{{cite web | url=https://trekmovie.com/2017/06/01/interview-morgan-gendel-on-writing-the-star-trek-the-next-generation-classic-the-inner-light/ | title=Interview: Morgan Gendel On Writing The Star Trek: The Next Generation Classic “The Inner Light” | date=June 1, 2017 | author=Anthony Pascale | work=TrekMovie.com | accessdate=2020-02-15 }}</ref> He has written for such television shows as ''Nash Bridges'',<ref>{{cite web | url=https://culturedvultures.com/interview-the-inner-light-of-morgan-gendel/ | title=Interview: The Inner Light Of Morgan Gendel | author=Ben Arzate | date=December 13, 2019 | work=CulturedVultures.com | accessdate=2020-02-16}}</ref> ''Law & Order'',<ref name=TrekMovie /> and ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''<ref name=TrekMovie />
Gendel is perhaps best known for having written "The Inner Light", one of the most popular and lauded episodes of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'', for which he won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation with Peter Allan Fields who wrote the final draft of the script<ref name=TrekMovie /> and the episode's director Peter Lauritson.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1993-hugo-awards/ |title=1993 Hugo Awards |publisher=World Science Fiction Society |accessdate=2020-02-15 }}</ref> He was the first television writer to win the Hugo for the franchise in 22 years, since the original ''Star Trek'' television series received it in 1968 for Harlan Ellison's screenplay to "The City on the Edge of Forever".
As a producer, Gendel brought ''The Dresden Files'' novels to the screen as a TV series on the SciFi Channel.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.outerplaces.com/science-fiction/item/16648-star-trek-morgan-gendel-interview-space-habitat | title=Legendary 'Star Trek' Writer Morgan Gendel Talks About His Plans to Create a New Extraterrestrial Habitat | date=23 August 2017 | author=Chris Mahon | work=OuterPlaces.com | accessdate=2020-02-16 }}</ref> He produced the movie ''Frankenhood'' for Lionsgate<ref>{{cite web | url=https://variety.com/2007/film/people-news/lionsgate-to-distribute-frankenhood-1117966823/ | title=Lionsgate to distribute 'Frankenhood' | date=June 12, 2007 | author=Pamela McClintock | work=Variety | accessdate=2020-02-16 }}</ref> and directed web series ''Pushed'' for The WB.com.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tubefilter.com/2009/06/08/hot-models-pushed-thewb-into-racy-drama/ | title=Hot Models 'Pushed' TheWB Into Racy Drama | date=June 8, 2009 | author=Lindsay Stidham | work=Tubefilter | accessdate=2020-02-16 }}</ref>
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==Bibliography== *[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-nov-03-et-counterpunch3-story.html Alien shares a political strain with Andromeda] - LA Times Article by Morgan Gendel *[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/09/five-big-issues-raised-by-the-inner-light Five Big Issues Raised by The Inner Light], Tor.com *[http://trekcore.com/blog/2013/05/exclusive-interview-with-the-inner-light-writer-morgan-gendel-part-i/ Interview with The Inner Light Writer Morgan Gendel], Trekcore.com *[http://artsfuse.org/84647/fuse-tv-feature-finding-the-inner-light-at-the-star-trek-convention/ Finding The Inner Light at the Star Trek Convention] ArtsFuse.org
==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0312663}}
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