Rick Berman is the co-creator and executive producer of Enterprise. With more than 500 episodes of Star Trek to his credit, the Emmy Award-winning Berman has been the preeminent force and architect of Star Trek's success since Gene Roddenberry's death in 1991.

Berman was the co-creator and executive producer of Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and he served as the executive producer of Star Trek: The Next Generation, which became the first syndicated series in television history to be nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series. He was also the producer and co-story writer of the feature films Star Trek Generations, Star Trek Insurrection, Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Nemesis.

Throughout his career with the Star Trek series, Berman has been honored with numerous Emmy Awards and nominations: Star Trek: The Next Generation received 16 Emmy Awards and 55 nominations; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine garnered four Emmy Awards and 31 nominations; and Star Trek: Voyager won eight Emmy Awards and landed 37 nominations.

Berman joined the Paramount family in 1984 as director of current programming, overseeing Cheers, Family Ties and Webster. Within a year, he was named vice president of dramatic programming, overseeing the development of the epic miniseries Space, the telefilm Wallenberg: A Hero's Story and ABC's top-rated series MacGyver. He was promoted in 1986 to vice president, longform and special projects, for Paramount Network Television, overseeing the development of telefilms, miniseries and specials. In 1987, he was selected by Gene Roddenberry to join him on the writing and production staff of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

For the first three years of Enterprise, its executive producers were Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. For the fourth year of Enterprise, the executive producers were Rick Berman, Brannon Braga and Manny Coto. Enterprise is based upon Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry.