Ira Steven Behr
| Ira Steven Behr | |
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Pictured at San Diego Comicon 2011
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23 October 1953 New York City, New York |
| Occupation | Television producer and screenwriter |
| Known for | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine |
Ira Steven Behr (born October 23, 1953, in New York City, New York) is an American television producer and screenwriter, most known for his work on Star Trek, especially Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, on which he served as showrunner and executive producer. He was the executive producer and showrunner on Crash and executive producer on Syfy's Alphas. Behr is currently a writer and co-executive producer on Outlander.
Born to a Jewish family, Behr studied at Lehman College in New York City. After graduating, Behr moved to Los Angeles to pursue a screenwriting career. Behr's first writing job was on the dramatic series Bret Maverick. Behr continued to work on television dramas, throughout the 1980s, among them:
After several years writing and producing television, and while still a staff writer at Beyond Reality, Behr was hired as a producer during Star Trek: The Next Generation's third season.
Behr left The Next Generation after a year; but two years later, he rejoined Star Trek as a supervising producer on the new series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. At the start of the second season, Behr was promoted to co-executive producer. The following year, co-creator Michael Piller left to produce the next Star Trek series, Star Trek: Voyager and Behr replaced him as showrunner and executive producer. As showrunner, Behr reported to head executive producer and franchise chief Rick Berman.
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