Winrich "Rick" Kolbe is a director, who worked on all four Star Trek spin-off series. An interview from 1994, on the location shooting for "Caretaker", was included in the special feature "On Location with the Kazon" on the Voyager Season 1 DVD.

Kolbe has also directed for several other television series, including CHiPs, Battlestar Galactica (1978), Voyagers!, Millennium, Angel, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, 24 and the remake of Twilight Zone (2002).

At one time he was a professor of Film and Television at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Around March 2007, he resigned and returned to California with his family for health reasons.

In-universe referenceEdit

A character listed in a piece of background signage in the The Next Generation episode "Up The Long Ladder", Captain Winrich Kolbe, was named for him.

Directing CreditsEdit

External linksEdit

• Winrich Kolbe at the Internet Movie Database
• Winrich Kolbe at Wikipedia
• Winrich Kolbe at Battlestar Wiki, an encyclopedia of the Battlestar Galactica sagas