Chris Black is a screenwriter and television producer, from Toledo, Ohio. Black is known for writing and producing mainly science fiction and action series, although he also was a part of the production team of the comedy-drama Desperate Housewives during its first two seasons. Black has produced and written episodes of Cleopatra 2525, The Huntress, Sliders, Star Trek: Enterprise, Hawaii and Standoff. In addition, he has written episodes of several other shows, including Weird Science, Xena: Warrior Princess and Vanished. He also co-wrote the 1997 action movie Masterminds starring Patrick Stewart. In 2022, Black and Matt Fraction co-created Monarch: Legacy of Monsters for Apple TV+. Black also serves as showrunner. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Black (screenwriter), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.