Naren Shankar

Naren Shankar is an Indian American writer, producer and director of several television series. He served as co-showrunner on the long-running CBS crime drama CSI and Almost Human, among others. As a writer and producer, Shankar has contributed with works for Farscape, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Night Visions, The Outer Limits, The Chronicle, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, seaQuest 2032, Grimm and Star Trek: Voyager.

Naren received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D degrees in applied physics and electrical engineering from Cornell University. After graduating, he joined the team behind Star Trek: The Next Generation. As a producer, Shankar has worked with UC: Undercover and Farscape. He also contributed to Doom.

Naren joined the writing staff of Star Trek: The Next Generation as an intern during the latter half of the fourth season. He then wrote several episodes for The Next Generation and for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as well as one first season episode for Star Trek: Voyager, and worked as science consultant during the shows sixth season and as story editor during the seventh season. Shankar also contributed to the video games Star Trek: The Next Generation – A Final Unity and Star Trek Generations.

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