David Weddle

David Weddle is an American writer, best known for writing episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1996 - 1999) and Battlestar Galactica (2004 - 2008) with writing partner Bradley Thompson.

1 Biography 2 Trivia 3 Credits 3.1 Deep Space Nine 3.2 Battlestar Galactica 4 External links 5 References

Weddle's father fought in World War II and saw action during the Guadalcanal campaign and the Battle of Peleliu.

Weddle graduated from the USC School of Cinema, as did writing partner Bradley Thompson, whom he first met in an acting class.

A fan of Sam Peckinpah, Weddle met the director on several occasions. Weddle and his parents knew Fern Lea Peter, Peckinpah's sister, and her family. He was able to watch Peckinpah direct what would be his last film, The Osterman Weekend.

After Peckinpah's death in 1984, Weddle used Peckinpah's production files and correspondence that had been given to the Motion Picture Academy Library to write a biography of the director. This biography, If They Move . . . Kill 'Em!: The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah was released in 1994.

It was the biography that brought Weddle to Deep Space Nine and later to Battlestar Galactica. Ira Steven Behr, a fan of Peckinpah, invited Weddle to Paramount Pictures. This enabled Weddle and Thompson to pitch stories to the show. The two joined the writing staff for DS9's final seasons. They also met and worked with producer Ronald D. Moore on the show.

Weddle and Thompson wrote twelve episodes of Deep Space Nine. Weddle can be seen in the background of the scene set at Vic Fontaine's Lounge in the final episode, "What You Leave Behind". He later wrote a DS9 novel set after the series with Jeffrey Lang. Entitled "Abyss", it focused on Section 31, the Federation's secretive intelligence service.

Weddle considers "Inquisition" to be the best Star Trek episode he and Bradley Thompson wrote, for showing "that the Federation, as perfect as it seemed, had to resort to unsavory tactics and work black bag operations to keep their world safe and pristine".

Together with Thompson, Weddle served as a story editor on the first season of Battlestar Galactica, and they became co-producers in the second season. Their responsibilities as producers increased during the third season, and they achieved supervising producer status for the fourth season. Weddle and Thompson have joined the staff of CSI: Las Vegas as writers and supervising producers.^[1]

Weddle has stated that he and his daughter have not enjoyed the fourth season of Battlestar Galactica because the story arcs don't conform to Aristotle's Poetics, thus making them "too difficult to follow."

• "Rules of Engagement"
• "The Assignment"
• "Business as Usual"
• "Sons and Daughters"
• "One Little Ship"
• "Inquisition"
• "The Reckoning"
• "Time's Orphan"
• "Treachery, Faith, and the Great River"
• "Prodigal Daughter"
• "'Til Death Do Us Part"
• "Extreme Measures"

• "Act of Contrition"
• "The Hand of God"
• "Scattered"
• "Valley of Darkness"
• "Flight of the Phoenix"
• "Scar"
• "Downloaded"
• "Exodus"
• "Rapture"
• "Maelstrom"
• "He That Believeth in Me"
• "Revelations"

• David Weddle at the Internet Movie Database
• David Weddle article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki
• David Weddle interview
• Interview with David Weddle
• CSI Note