Debra “Debbie” Lynn Mirek, née Packard, was a writer who had a single, albeit an influential one, official co-author credit as “Debbie Mirek” for the reference book, Star Trek Encyclopedia.

While Mirek officially has this one official Star Trek credit only, her contributions to the franchise actually expanded beyond the one credit. Already befriended with Denise Tathwell, Mirek came into contact with the franchise through Tathwell, when the latter became engaged to Michael Okuda. It was in this period that, “(…)Roddenberry asked Mike to write up a chronology to keep the facts straight between TOS and TNG. I think at the time, he thought it would be about 7-10 pages of dates. Well, Mike (and Denise and ME) is a pathological overachiever. He felt to do the treatment justice, we would have to watch each episode and take notes…we ended up with about 10 pages of notes for EACH episode and the chronology was born.” Though Mirek was mentioned as proof reader and editor in the long list of acknowledgments in the Star Trek Chronology itself, she was not officially credited for it. Nevertheless, her contributions as researcher to this work were explicitly mentioned in her mini-biography in the first edition of the one year later released Encyclopedia (p. 397).