As a high school exchange student in Japan, Herbert Wright began a
lifelong study of martial arts, and the art of filmmaking after meeting
the legendary director,
Akira Kurosawa. After graduation with honors from
Yale, filmmaker Wright moved to Hollywood, pursuing a successful career
in movies and TV. Wright has worked as a producer-writer-director on
hit shows such as
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987),
War of the Worlds (1988),
Hunter (1984), and
Stingray (1986), amassing over
200 episodes produced. Trekkies know of the Emmy-nominated Wright as
the "Father of the Ferengi", having created the notorious space
villains at
Gene Roddenberry's bidding. He is producing, writing and directing
the first original made-for-the-Net Science Fiction entertainment, the
sci-fi cyberseries
Mars and Beyond (2000), on the Cyber Sci-Fi Network.