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Tue Jan 9, 2024, 10:40 PM Jan 2024

Tracy Torme 'Sliders' Co-Creator and 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' Writer, Dies at 64



Tracy Tormé, a UFO expert and son of stylish crooner Mel Tormé who co-created the 1990s series Sliders and was hand-picked by Gene Roddenberry to serve as the head writer on Star Trek: The Next Generation, has died. He was 64.

Tormé died Thursday of complications from diabetes in Escondido, California, his sister and brother, actress Daisy Tormé (Superman & Lois) and recording artist James Tormé, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Tormé also was a writer on Saturday Night Live during its eighth season (1982-83); wrote and produced with Travis Walton the fantasy drama film Fire in the Sky (1993), starring D.B. Sweeney and Robert Patrick; and was a consultant on the acclaimed Robert Zemeckis sci-fi drama Contact (1997).

He wrote the original treatment for the Francis Lawrence-directed I Am Legend (2007) and received co-producer credit on that film, which grossed $585.4 million for Warner Bros. Smith battles mutants as the last human in New York in the post-apocalyptic thriller that was based on a Richard Matheson novel.


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Tracy Torme 'Sliders' Co-Creator and 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' Writer, Dies at 64 (Original Post) BootinUp Jan 2024 OP
He worked on a lot of shows I really liked Bayard Jan 2024 #1
I know, its a little depressing that he died at only 64. BootinUp Jan 2024 #2
Aw, dang! Enjoy ST:NG, loved Sliders. Sigh. RIP electric_blue68 Mar 2024 #3
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