- On the week of Piller's death, Canadian sci-fi station Space aired a marathon of Star Trek: Voyager (1995) and Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) episodes he had written.
- Piller is a HUGE baseball fan. He has over two hundred thousand baseball cards. You can see his baseball interest in "Captain Sisko" on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993).
- Cast Anthony Michael Hall in The Dead Zone (2002) after seeing Hall's performance in Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999).
- A fictitious 24th century chemical element on "Star Trek", "pillerium", was named for him in his honor for all the contributions after his death.
- When he married Sandra Piller, her daughter Christy was age 12 and her son Shawn was age 8. After eight years of marriage, they had daughter Brent.
- Father of writer/producer Shawn Piller.
- He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor's degree in radio, television and motion pictures in 1970.
- His wife, Sandra Piller, had a role as a reporter in the Simon & Simon (1981) episode, Simon Without Simon: Part 1 (1985), and a role as a saleslady in the Simon & Simon (1981) episode, D-I-V-O-R-C-E (1986).
- He used to work at WBBM-TV in Chicago, Illinois, the very same TV station that produced the "Siskel & Ebert" TV show. Siskel knew him personally. And praised his self-penned "Star Trek: Insurrection" film. Roger's review was negative.
- Received a group Emmy Award when he worked on CBS news.
- Son-in-law of actress/dancer Sandra Giles.
- Ex-father-in-law of Lindsay Price.
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