WonderCon 2025
A Conversation with Nicholas Meyer.
Moderated by Danny Fingeroth, screenwriter/director/novelist Nicholas Meyer ("The Seven Percent Solution," "Time After Time," "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," "The Day After") discussed growing up in Manhattan in a soon-to-be gentrified neighborhood with his highly academic parents, who exposed their self-admitted ADD son to great culture and literature. Meyer's education at University of Iowa also served him well in his career as a dramatist.
When he was 7, Meyer's parents hosted a Thanksgiving whose guests included Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein (!). He also discussed how his father stoked his love of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's master sleuth, Sherlock Holmes; a lifelong subject of obsession for whom he's written several novels, including "The Seven Percent Solution," and more recently, "Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell."
Naturally, Meyer later segued into his involvement with Star Trek, which began when his girlfriend suggested that if the highbrow Meyer wanted to be a director, he might want to get to it, and start directing. He met with producer Harve Bennett, with whom he hit it off, and in two weeks, he cobbled together a screenplay out of several very unrelated drafts.
Q & A from the audience included a gentlemen who became very emotional just meeting Meyer; whose "The Wrath of Khan" was a huge influence on him when he was 11 years old.
Personally, I found Meyer's cultivated persona of a "snob" to be at odds with the kinder man I met; who was very giving with his time and with his fans (he was also very punctual).
WonderCon 2025
A Conversation with Nicholas Meyer.
Moderated by Danny Fingeroth, screenwriter/director/novelist Nicholas Meyer ("The Seven Percent Solution," "Time After Time," "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," "The Day After") discussed growing up in Manhattan in a soon-to-be gentrified neighborhood with his highly academic parents, who exposed their self-admitted ADD son to great culture and literature. Meyer's education at University of Iowa also served him well in his career as a dramatist.
When he was 7, Meyer's parents hosted a Thanksgiving whose guests included Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein (!). He also discussed how his father stoked his love of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's master sleuth, Sherlock Holmes; a lifelong subject of obsession for whom he's written several novels, including "The Seven Percent Solution," and more recently, "Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell."
Naturally, Meyer later segued into his involvement with Star Trek, which began when his girlfriend suggested that if the highbrow Meyer wanted to be a director, he might want to get to it, and start directing. He met with producer Harve Bennett, with whom he hit it off, and in two weeks, he cobbled together a screenplay out of several very unrelated drafts.
Q & A from the audience included a gentlemen who became very emotional just meeting Meyer; whose "The Wrath of Khan" was a huge influence on him when he was 11 years old.
Personally, I found Meyer's cultivated persona of a "snob" to be at odds with the kinder man I met; who was very giving with his time and with his fans (he was also very punctual).