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David WeddleVernon Weddle

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David Weddle is a TV writer and producer who, before working on BSG, was best known for his work on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He is a supervising producer for the Re-imagined Series as of the fourth season.

Weddle is the son of a former Marine who fought in some of the bloodiest Pacific battles of World War II, such as Guadalcanal and Peleliu.

While Weddle was growing up, his family was close to several members of the renown film director Sam Peckinpah's family, including his sister, Fern Lea (Peckinpah) Peter and her husband, and the director's son, Mathew Peckinpah. Later, through the son, Weddle met the famous father and watched him direct some of his last movie, The Osterman Weekend.

After Sam Peckinpah's death, Weddle used the director's thousands of production files and personal correspondence in possession of the Motion Picture Academy Library, as well as his contacts with family and friends, to write a major biography of the director.

After the book was published, Ira Steven Behr, the head writer and executive producer of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine—and a major Peckinpah fan—invited Weddle to lunch at Paramount and a tour the DS9 sets. The two became friends, and eventually Weddle asked Behr if he and his writing partner Bradley Thompson could pitch story ideas for the show.

Weddle had met Thompson in an acting class, where they discovered both attended the USC School of Cinema. Years later, Thompson asked Weddle if he could adapt Weddle's play "Memoirs of an Awkward Lover" into a screenplay. Weddle agreed, and the two ended up collaborating on the project together. But ultimately. nothing came of the adaptation.

Weddle and Thompson's first credited story for the series was was the fourth season episode "Rules of Engagement". The teleplay was written by Ronald D. Moore. Their first credited teleplay for Deep Space Nine was the fifth season episode "The Assignment".

The two continued to write for Deep Space Nine through its final season, writing two episodes from the final tightly-plotted nine-episode arc of the series.

Weddle has stated that his and Thompson's best script for DS9 was "Inquisition," which introduced an uncommonly dark element into the world of the generally utopian Star Trek—namely, a covert black ops group known as "Section 31" which protects the Federation's interests using tactics that run counter to the noble philosophy and ideals of the organization.

Weddle also claims there are many references to Peckinpah and his films in their episodes for Battlestar Galactica.

Thompson and Weddle initially served as story editors on the first season of Battlestar Galactica. They became co-producers as of the second season. They were given more responsibility as producers for the third season. They became supervising producers for the fourth season.

While initially slated to write the "movie of the week" (later entitled "The Plan") with Thompson, the two had to subsequently withdraw from this assignment due to being hired as writers and supervising producers for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, the popular, long-running CBS series.

Weddle made an uncredited appearance as a patron of Joe's bar in the episode "Someone to Watch Over Me".

Behind the scenes

In a 2008 interview, co-executive producer Mark Verheiden shared a comment from Weddle about the symbolism in "He That Believeth in Me," an episode Weddle co-wrote with Thompson. When asked about Saul Tigh's hallucination in which he shoots Adama in the same eye that Tigh had lost, Weddle responded through Verheiden with deliberate mystery:

"I was waiting for someone to pick up on that telling detail. Congratulations. But I am disappointed you have not figured out its significance within the larger mythology of the show. It's all laid out for you. All you have to do is run the episode over again in slow motion, and the deeper truth will be revealed."

Writer credits for "Battlestar Galactica"

• Season 1:
  • Act of Contrition
  • The Hand of God
• Season 2:
  • Scattered
  • Valley of Darkness
  • Flight of the Phoenix
  • Scar
  • Downloaded
• Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance - A series of webisodes bridging the gap between Seasons 2 and 3
• Season 3:
  • Exodus, Part I
  • Exodus, Part II
  • Rapture
  • Maelstrom
• Season 4:
  • He That Believeth in Me
  • Revelations
  • Sometimes a Great Notion
  • Someone to Watch Over Me

See also: Episodes written by David Weddle

External Links

• Weddle article at Memory Alpha, the Star Trek wiki.

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Commentary and Interviews

General References

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Vernon Weddle (born Vernon Mansfield Weddle Jr., August 24, 1935) is an American actor who portrayed Sergeant James, billed on screen as "1st Cop," in the Galactica 1980 episode "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I".

Career

Early life and education

He was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the son of Vernon M. Weddle Sr. and Grace G. Weddle. Weddle moved to Texas with his family at the age of thirteen. He attended Lon Morris Junior College in Jacksonville, Texas, and graduated in the top ten percent of his class from the University of Texas at Austin in 1958. He then took a position as actor-in-residence and instructor in theatre arts at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri.

Stage career

In 1961, Weddle and his wife. Geraldine "Gerri" Weddle née Peeples, premiered Guidebook to Bigamy, a comedy they co-wrote, at the Okoboji Summer Theatre in Iowa. Weddle wrote the dialogue in longhand and his wife handled the plotting. The finished script was their ninth complete draft, the product of roughly 2,000 pages written over the preceding year. The play centers on a psychologist, Charles Cook, who takes multiple wives to research his own theories on marriage "in the pure sense of the word." Weddle played Cook opposite Anita Stewart as his neglected wife, with Miles Shearer, William C. Cragen, and Virginia True in supporting roles. Stage and screen actor Tom Ewell and Broadway producer Arthur Penn both requested copies of the script to study, though neither appeared in the Okoboji production.

By 1966, Weddle had joined the summer repertory program at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California, as its first visiting artist-in-residence, continuing his appointment at Stephens College during the academic year. In May 1967, he starred in Take Her, She's Mine at the Stephens Playhouse, playing one of the parents opposite Pamela Freihofer in the Phoebe and Henry Ephron comedy. He returned to Allan Hancock College for a third summer residency in 1968, when he played Sir Peter Teazle in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal, staged as the college's new thrust-stage theatre opened. That same summer, fellow actor Kirk Mee joined the Hancock program. Both had previously worked with actor Monte Markham at Stephens College in 1960.

Discussing that season's box-office results, Weddle noted that the Greek tragedy Oedipus had proven unexpectedly popular with Hancock audiences.

It reaffirms my faith that people are attracted to good drama and good theatre. It is really a tribute to the people of this community that they support the theatre so well.

Screen career

Weddle worked as a television and film character actor from the 1970s through 1990, often cast as doctors, officials, and other authority figures.

He appeared in three productions from Glen A. Larson in addition to Galactica 1980. On B.J. and the Bear he played Delwood P. Manners in two second-season episodes, "Cain's Cruiser" (1979) and "The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful" (1980). He guest-starred in three episodes of Quincy, M.E. between 1977 and 1980, as Mr. Carew, Hal Peters, and Peter Harper. He also appeared as Dr. Moray in the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode "Mark of the Saurian" (1981).

In feature films, Weddle played Reverend Hubbard in Norma Rae (1979) and General Washburne in Short Circuit (1986). On Simon & Simon he appeared in three episodes between 1982 and 1985 in separate roles. His final credited screen role was a 1990 episode of Parker Lewis Can't Lose.

Personal life

Weddle met his future wife, Gerri, while both were students at Lon Morris, where they appeared together in the musical Roberta. Gerri Weddle, born Geraldine Peeples on November 5, 1936, in Dallas, Texas, was the daughter of Cecil E. Peeples and Gladys (Labenski) Peeples. Her father later served as president of Lon Morris Junior College. She graduated cum laude from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, in 1956. The couple had two sons, Richard and Kirk, and co-wrote Guidebook to Bigamy together (see: Stage career).

By 1970, Weddle's parents were living in Texas City, Texas, where his sister, Laura Hale, also resided.

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