Robert Meyer Burnett
Robert "Rob" Meyer Burnett  is an American director, producer, writer, and editor. A longtime Star Trek fan, his early contributions to Star Trek media included co-writing (with Mark A. Altman) and directing the  film  (a Star Trek phenomenon referencing parody, featuring William Shatner) and editing multimedia displays at the now-defunct Star Trek: The Experience attraction in Las Vegas. Burnett is the CEO of Ludovico Technique, the entertainment production company which co-produced the special features for the Blu-ray releases.

After the cancellation of  in , Burnett, together with fellow "trekkies" director Bryan Singer and writer Christopher McQuarrie met in December of that year and discussed their mutual desire to create a new televised iteration of the Star Trek series, which was worked out in a pitch called Star Trek: Federation. The pitch, completed in January 2006, was never given to CBS as Paramount had already announced it was collaborating with J.J. Abrams for what eventually became . 

Nonetheless, starting in 2011/2012, he worked as a lead producer, writer, and editor for the special features (for which he and colleague Roger Lay, Jr. introduced the term "VAM" – Value Added Material), that were included on the  and the  Blu-ray releases. Burnett also served as host of the "Reunification: 25 Years After Star Trek: The Next Generation" roundtable discussion on the TNG Season 2 Blu-ray set.

The in-universe characters Robert Burnett Raymond in  and  in  were named after him in the remastered versions of the respective episodes.

In a February 2017 Word Balloon podcast interview with John Siuntres (currently posted on ), Burnett divulged that he was part of the Axanar (the fanmovie by Alec Peters he served on as editor) lawsuit that created a rift between some fans and CBS Broadcasting (Burnett's former "VAM" employer), also divulging (at 00:27:00 into the interview) that he, as a lifelong fan of "classic Star Trek", hated the alternate reality  "to the core of my existence", even though he conceded that the movies were beautifully made. In this, he echoed the sentiment of former Star Trek production staffer Doug Drexler, who shared similar concerns about the movies, as had his former "VAM" colleague Lay already done in 2013 for that matter. .

In an exclusive March 2019 roundtable discussion with the staff of the YouTube channel Midnight's Edge, Burnett delved much deeper into not only his reservations about the alternate reality films, but also into his considerable reservations about  for its, in his eyes, canon violations as well as "bad science" in the latter case specifically. Scientific plausibility having been a prerogative for Roddenberry/Berman-era Star Trek, Burnett likened Discovery to "Alice in Wonderland", coining the series a "maddening cartoonish, dumbed down" version of Star Trek, even though again conceding that it was well made.  On his stance on the dodgy science employed in Discovery, Meyer echoed comments made by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson in a November 2017 blog entry on his StarTalk podcast website.

Star Trek credits 
 
 Energized! Taking The Next Generation to the Next Level () – Producer, Editor
 Stardate Revisited: The Origin of Star Trek - The Next Generation (2012) – Writer, Producer, Editor
 Reunification: 25 Years After Star Trek - The Next Generation (2012) – Writer, Producer, Editor
 Making It So: Continuing Star Trek - The Next Generation (2012) – Writer, Producer, Editor
 Star Trek: The Next Generation - Regeneration: Engaging the Borg () – Writer, Producer, Editor
 Star Trek: The Next Generation - Inside the Writer's Room (2013) – Writer, Producer, Film Editor
 Resistance Is Futile: Assimilating Star Trek - The Next Generation (2013) – Writer, Producer, Film Editor
 Star Trek: The Next Generation - Survive and Succeed: An Empire at War (2013) – Writer, Producer, Film Editor
 Relativity: The Family Saga of Star Trek - The Next Generation (2013) – Writer, Producer, Film Editor
 In Conversation: The Star Trek Art Department (2013) – Writer, Producer, Film Editor
 In Conversation: The Music of Star Trek - The Next Generation (2013) – Writer, Producer, Film Editor
 Requiem - A Remembrance of Star Trek: The Next Generation (2013) – Writer, Producer, Film Editor
 Star Trek: From One Generation to the Next (2013) – Writer, Producer, Film Editor
 Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Privilege of Rank: Making Chain of Command () – Writer, Producer, Film Editor
 Beyond the Five Year Mission: The Evolution of Star Trek - The Next Generation (2014) – Writer, Producer, Film Editor
 The Unknown Possibilities of Existence: Making "All Good Things" (2014) – Writer, Producer, Editor
 Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Sky's the Limit - The Eclipse of Star Trek: The Next Generation (2014) – Writer, Producer, Film Editor
 In Conversation: Lensing Star Trek - The Next Generation (2014) – Writer, Producer, Film Editor
 
 To Boldly Go: Launching Enterprise (2013) – Producer, Film Editor, Post Production Supervisor
 In Conversation: Rick Berman and Brannon Braga (2013) – Writer, Producer, Film Editor
 Star Trek: Enterprise - Uncharted Territory (2013) – Producer
 Star Trek: Enterprise - In Conversation - The First Crew (2013) – Writer, Producer, Film Editor, Camera Operator

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Special features staff
Exhibit and attraction staff