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Ira Steven Behr was born on 23 October, 1953 in New York, New York, is an American screen writer and television producer. Discover Ira Steven Behr's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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Occupation Television screenwriter and producer
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 23 October, 1953
Birthday 23 October
Birthplace New York, New York
Nationality United States

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1953

Ira Steven Behr (born October 23, 1953) is an American screenwriter and television producer, best known for his work on Star Trek, especially Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, on which he served as showrunner and executive producer.

He was the executive producer and showrunner on Crash, executive producer on Syfy's Alphas and a writer and co-executive producer on Outlander.

Behr was born in New York City to a Jewish family.

He studied at Lehman College in New York City.

After graduating, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career writing comedies for television and film.

Behr married Laura Feder, who is credited as choreographer on three episodes of Deep Space Nine and one episode of Voyager.

1980

Behr's first writing job was on the dramatic series Bret Maverick. Behr continued to work on television dramas, throughout the 1980s, among them:

After several years writing and producing television, and while still a staff writer at Beyond Reality, Behr was hired as a producer during Star Trek: The Next Generation's third season.

Behr felt there were too many rules and regulations and felt creatively trapped, so he left The Next Generation after a year.

He remained good friends with Michael Piller and wrote the season 4 episode "Qpid" as a freelance writer.

Piller persuaded him to join the new series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as a supervising producer.

At the start of the second season, Behr was promoted to co-executive producer.

The following year, co-creator Michael Piller left to produce the next Star Trek series, Star Trek: Voyager and Behr replaced him as showrunner and executive producer.

As showrunner, Behr reported to head executive producer and franchise chief Rick Berman.

Although they would disagree on many things, Behr said they had a good working relationship.

Behr went on to write a total of 53 out 176 Deep Space Nine episodes, more than any other writer.

As executive producer, Behr was largely responsible for the story arc of the show, from Bajoran politics to the Dominion War.

This complex serialized story was a departure from the traditional Star Trek episodic format, and the war narrative was a break from the typically hopeful Star Trek vision of the future.

Behr wrote or co-wrote some of the most important episodes in the Dominion arc, including "The Jem'Hadar", "The Search", "The Way of the Warrior", "Broken Link", "Apocalypse Rising", "In Purgatory's Shadow", "By Inferno's Light", "Call to Arms", "Sacrifice of Angels", "Tears of the Prophets" and the final episode, "What You Leave Behind".

Behr also had a significant role in the development of the Ferengi alien race during his work on Deep Space Nine.

Although the Ferengi were first introduced in the first season of The Next Generation as a potential major antagonist, they proved unsuccessful, and in subsequent seasons became an occasional source of comic relief.

But it was not until Deep Space Nine, which included a Ferengi character in its regular cast, that the Ferengi were truly explored in any depth.

Behr was involved with most of the early Ferengi-related episodes, and introduced the concept of the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition and wrote most of the rules which appeared on the show.

These rules were later published as The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition, by Quark as told to Ira Steven Behr (ISBN 0-671-52936-6).

Along with fellow Deep Space Nine producer Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Behr also co-wrote Legends of the Ferengi, a collection of short stories involving the Rules of Acquisition.(ISBN 0-671-57901-0)

Behr was the driving force behind the documentary What We Left Behind.

1999

Behr left Star Trek following the completion of Deep Space Nine's seventh season in 1999.

2000

He again worked with René Echevarria on season two of Dark Angel (2000) as a consulting producer.

2001

Behr served as writer and executive producer on the short lived series Bob Patterson (2001), which was created by and starred Jason Alexander.

2002

He returned to Paramount for the revival of The Twilight Zone (2002) as writer and executive producer.

It aired on UPN directly after Star Trek: Enterprise, and ran for a single season of 42 episodes.

Behr described the fast production turnaround as insane but, despite the difficulty he found the camaraderie and the dedication in the writer's room rewarding, and said that almost all of the writers would have been willing to do it again for another season if they had been given the chance.

He thought UPN did not really want the show, and that it was not a good fit for the network.

2004

He also worked as writer and consulting producer on the series Dr. Vegas (2004).

René Echevarria created the series The 4400 (2004–2007), which Behr joined as a writer and took over as executive producer.

The series ran for four seasons, and Behr enjoyed the experience and thought "we did some really good episodes."

2009

In February 2009, Behr was named head writer for the Starz TV series Crash (based on the Paul Haggis film) as it headed into Season 2, which aired in the fall of 2009.

After his disappointment at the cancellation of The 4400, people were surprised that Behr chose to join the struggling show.

He saw it as an opportunity, as they would be more open and willing to do things differently than if it had been a more successful show.

2017

In 2017 Behr produced the feature film Lucky starring Harry Dean Stanton.