Post-Star Trek
In 1996, he sold his first feature film script, called Oversight. The script, set in a Congressional sub-committee, is about "the passing of control … from one generation to the next set", inspired by his relationship with his son Shawn, who had contributed scripts to The Next Generation and Voyager. As of 2005 the script has yet to be produced.
Piller formed a production company with his son Shawn in 1999 called Piller². Together they developed a pilot in 2000 for the WB Television Network called Day One. However the series was not picked up.
In 2001, he was approached by producer Lloyd Segan to develop a television series from Stephen King's novel The Dead Zone. The series The Dead Zone, co-developed with his son Shawn and starring Anthony Michael Hall and costarring Star Trek Deep Space Nine's Nicole de Boer, debuted June 16, 2002 on the USA Network. As of late 2007, USA Network canceled The Dead Zone series due to a lack of ratings.
In 2005, Wildfire, another series that Piller developed with his son, debuted on the ABC Family channel. It starred Deep Space Nine's Nana Visitor. Its fourth and final season ended on May 26, 2008.
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