Dave Stern is a Star Trek author and editor living in Massachusetts.

Writer of a number of stories in the universe, his first contribution was for DC Comics co-writing the eighteenth issue of their second TNG volume, “Forbidden Fruit”. Not long after, he wrote the audio adventure Transformations for George Takei.

Stern was also an editor on the Pocket Books Star Trek line, and worked heavily on the Enterprise series of novels, writing five of the tie-in books.

Most recently, he wrote the Original Series novel, The Children of Kings, and was hired on by Stardock to oversee creative storytelling and lore implementation for their Elemental: War of Magic game.