(written from a Production point of view)
Hugh Bradley Thompson, Jr. (born 2 September 1951; age 72), usually credited as Bradley Thompson, is a writer of several Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes. In all of the episodes he was involved in, he always wrote with his writing partner David Weddle. He appears in the background of the scene set in Vic's lounge in the seventh season episode "What You Leave Behind" as a holographic guest.
Weddle was brought in on the writing staff of Deep Space Nine in the wake of his friend Weddle being offered the position by show-runner Ira Steven Behr as a result of their shared passion for renowned director Sam Peckinpah. A self-admitted "shameless opportunist", Weddle made use of the opportunity to secure the same position for his friend as well. [1]
Thompson was to write a Deep Space Nine relaunch novel entitled Walking Wounded. Unfortunately, the project was abandoned in 2005. The novel was to focus on veterans of the Dominion War and how they adjusted to normal life again and attempted to come to terms with their experiences.
Career[]
Thompson met his livelong friend and writing partner Weddle while, "(...)in an acting class and we discovered we were both at USC School of Cinema. It was the same acting class that Richard Hatch frequented. Richard was doing the original Battlestar Galactica at that time, and everybody in class was in awe -- he was a WORKING ACTOR! And all the class ladies would go to parties and watch him when the show came on. Of course, while they were adoring him, they were ignoring me, so I didn't like the show very much. But they would have ignored me anyway, so I guess I wasn't giving the show a fair shake." [2]
Upon conclusion of the series, Thompson, together with partner Weddle, joined former Deep Space Nine colleague Ronald D. Moore as writer, executive story editor and co-producer on the latter's re-imagined Battlestar Galactica franchise – in which incidentally, the by Thompson initially much envied Hatch was featured as a recurring character.
Since the end of Battlestar Galactica, Thompson has written episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Falling Skies, Defiance, The Strain and For All Mankind, invariably in conjunction with partner Weddle. Their collaboration on Defiance reunited the pair again with former Deep Space Nine production staffers Gary Hutzel and Doug Drexler (who incidentally, had also worked as production regulars on Battlestar Galactica), whereas the pair was reunited with Moore, Naren Shankar, Joe Menosky and the Okuda couple on For All Mankind.
Writing credits[]
- DS9:
- Season 4: "Rules of Engagement" (story with David Weddle)
- Season 5:
- "The Assignment" (teleplay with David Weddle)
- "Business as Usual" (with David Weddle)
- Season 6:
- "Sons and Daughters" (with David Weddle)
- "One Little Ship" (with David Weddle)
- "Inquisition" (with David Weddle)
- "The Reckoning" (teleplay with David Weddle)
- "Time's Orphan" (teleplay with David Weddle)
- Season 7:
- "Treachery, Faith and the Great River" (teleplay with David Weddle)
- "Prodigal Daughter" (with David Weddle)
- "'Til Death Do Us Part" (with David Weddle)
- "Extreme Measures" (with David Weddle)
External links[]
- Bradley Thompson at Wikipedia
- Bradley Thompson at the Internet Movie Database
- Bradley Thompson at Battlestar Wiki
- Bradley Thompson 3 August 2005 interview by John Larocque – covers his work on both Deep Space Nine and re-imagined Battlestar Galactica.