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November 15, 2002

Michael Piller has wrote a column remembering Hilary Bader, who passed away November 7th of breast cancer. She was 50.

Below is a snippet of Mr. Piller's touching column:

I'd like to share a few memories about a writer I knew and worked with for almost fifteen years. Hilary Bader left us, last week, a victim of cancer.

Hilary was one of those writers who walked into the Star Trek: The Next Generation offices without literally any professional credits, as I recall. But she had gone to the trouble of writing a spec script which showed promise and it got her in the door and she never left. Over the years she would write for all the Star Trek shows and was in to pitch The Dead Zone not long ago, too.

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My favorite Bader TNG story was one about a boy who wanted to squeeze all the hurt and pain out of his soul aspiring to live an Android existence like Data (who of course yearned to feel the emotions of humans). "Hero Worship" touched a lot of people who could understand how that kid felt because we've all felt that way from time to time.

I believe Hilary created the alien race known as the Cairn for "Dark Page," another Troi story in which Deanna saves the life of her mother.

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No one on Star Trek ever truly dies, we always like to say in jest. But today, we cannot deny death. We cannot lose the hurt and pain in our souls as Hilary's young character in "Hero Worship" tried so hard to do.

— Michael Piller

To read more, click on the link below:

http://www.startrek.com/news/news.asp?ID=126417

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