Career
Bormanis is most notable for his involvement in the long-running Star Trek franchise, and was the science consultant on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise. He also wrote a number of episodes of the Star Trek: Voyager series and became a writer and producer on the Enterprise series, as well as acting as science/technical advisor on two of the Next Generation films. He was also a writer and producer of the Columbia Broadcasting System science fiction drama Threshold.
The Columbia Broadcasting System drama series Eleventh Hour.
A writer for Tron: Uprising. And the director of scientific research for Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.
Star Trek Bormanis became the science consultant for Star Trek: The Next Generation and went on to work in that capacity for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. In his role he acted as an advisor for the screenwriters, in order to ensure that the correct scientific principles are included in the episodes.
Whilst working on Voyager, he co-wrote the episode "Nightingale".
He has since written the book Star Trek: Science Logs. Other work Bormanis received a degree in physics from the University of Arizona in 1981. In 1994, following a National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space Grant Fellowship from the District of Columbia Space Grant Consortium, he gained a Master"s degree in science, technology and public policy from George Washington University.
In addition to his television work, he has worked as a consultant to the San Juan Institute and the Planetary Society in Pasadena, California.