Jerry Fleck

Fleck was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Ed and Joan Fleck. The family moved to Santa Barbara, California, in 1955. During his school years, Jerry became student government president and within the Boy Scouts of America, he became an Eagle Scout. He performed in school productions, and later joined the Santa Barbara Youth Theater. While at Santa Barbara City College, he won a scholarship to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Art in New York City. Jerry graduated from California State Long Beach with a BA in Theater Arts and production. He was in the same graduating class as Steven Spielberg.

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After graduation, Fleck appeared in several theatrical productions while doing dinner theater where he performed across America. He joined the production team of Sunn Classic Pictures, working on series such as The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams.^[1] On that show, he worked with James L. Conway, with whom he would later work on the pilot of Star Trek: Enterprise, "Broken Bow".^[2] As an assistant director, he worked on other production companies' television series such as Hardcastle and McCormick, The A-Team and Hunter, and on feature films including Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands and Beetlejuice.^[1] He joined Star Trek: The Next Generation as first assistant director, marking the start of eleven and a half years with the franchise. He continued his work with the series Star Trek: Voyager and Enterprise, and the Jonathan Frakes-directed films Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Insurrection.^[1]