(no image available) Happy birthday to Andy Mangels! Andy Mangels is a writer of many Star Trek novels, in collaboration with Michael A. Martin. Although some of his novels feature the recurring homosexual character of Ranul Keru (ex-lover of Star Trek: First Contact’s Lt. Hawk), contrary to some claims, he is not the first Trek […]
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Melinda Snodgrass!
(no image available) Happy birthday to Melinda Snodgrass! Melinda M. Snodgrass is a writer who worked on several stories and teleplays for Star Trek: The Next Generation. She was also a story editor for The Next Generation during the second season and an executive script consultant on the third season. Her script for “The Measure […]
Happy 2025 Birthday to Tony Daniel!
(no image available) Happy birthday to Tony Daniel! Tony Daniel is the author of the Pocket TOS novels Devil’s Bargain and Savage Trade. Daniel was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and currently lives in Raleigh North Carolina. He has a wife and two children. His first novel was the 1991 Candle, republished in 1993 as Warpath, […]
Happy 2025 Birthday to Dave Stern!
(no image available) Happy birthday to Dave Stern! 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 […]
Happy 2025 Birthday to Christie Golden!
(no image available) Happy birthday to Christie Golden! Award-winning author Christie Golden has written over thirty novels and several short stories in the fields of science fiction, fantasy and horror. Among her many projects are over a dozen Star Trek novels and several original fantasy novels. An avid player of World of Warcraft, she has […]
Happy 2025 Birthday to Jim Johnson!
() Happy birthday to Jim Johnson! Jim Johnson is the author of the Pistols and Pyramids weird Western series, the Potomac Shadows urban fantasy trilogy, and is the project manager and line editor for the Star Trek Adventures roleplaying game published by Modiphius Entertainment. When he’s not wrangling words or managing writers, Jim plays board […]
Happy 2025 Birthday to Alan Dean Foster!
(Image Credit: Elf) Happy birthday to Alan Dean Foster! Alan Dean Foster is a prolific science fiction and fantasy author. He is credited with writing the story for what became Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Born in New York City, Foster went to the University of California, Los Angeles. He currently lives in Prescott, Arizona […]
Happy 2025 Birthday to Jeff Bond!
(no image available) Happy birthday to Jeff Bond! Jeff Bond is an American magazine editor and writer, currently editor in chief of Geek Monthly. He is perhaps best known for the many reviews and columns he wrote as contributing editor for Film Score Monthly starting in the mid 1990s; as well as liner notes for […]
Happy 2025 Birthday to Dean Wesley Smith!
(Photo by JD Lasica from Pleasanton, CA, US) Happy birthday to Dean Wesley Smith! Dean Wesley Smith is a science fiction author, known primarily for his Star Trek novels, film novelizations, and other novels of licensed properties such as Smallville, Spider-Man, X-Men, Aliens, Roswell, Men in Black, and Quantum Leap. He is also known for […]
Happy 2025 Birthday to Eric A. Stillwell!
(no image available) Happy birthday to Eric A. Stillwell! Eric A. Stillwell is a producer and writer who worked on a number of television series, made-for-television movies, and motion pictures, including numerous Star Trek series and motion pictures. Check out the Eric A. Stillwell credit page to view more updates and a full list of […]
Happy 2025 Birthday to William J. Birnes!
(no image available) Happy birthday to William J. Birnes! William J. “Bill” Birnes is an American author and ufologist. A graduate of New York University, he holds a Ph.D in medieval literature (with a dissertation on Piers Plowman) from the same institution (1974) and later earned a J.D. degree from Concord Law School. Check out […]
Happy 2025 Birthday to Ian Spelling!
(no image available) Happy birthday to Ian Spelling! Ian R. Spelling is a freelance journalist and entertainment writer for numerous Star Trek related interviews for magazines, websites, and newspapers. He served as the editor of StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek site, from 2010 to 2019. Check out the Ian Spelling credit page to view more […]
Happy 2025 Birthday to Kathy Oltion!
(no image available) Happy birthday to Kathy Oltion! Kathy F. Oltion lives in Eugene, Oregon with her husband, Jerry Oltion, with whom she co-wrote a TOS novel. She also entered the the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds writing contest and two of her short stories were chosen for publication. Along with her husband, she is […]
Happy 2025 Birthday to Phil Farrand!
(no image available) Happy birthday to Phil Farrand! Phil Farrand is an American computer programmer and consultant, webmaster and author. He is known for his Nitpicker’s Guides, in which he nitpicks plot holes and continuity errors in the various Star Trek television programs and movies, and for the creation of Nitcentral, a website devoted to […]
Happy 2025 Birthday to Armin Shimerman!
(Photo by Super Festivals – https://www.flickr.com/photos/superfestivals/49731883951/) Happy birthday to Armin Shimerman! Armin Shimerman is the actor who was best known in the Star Trek universe for his portrayal of the Ferengi bartender Quark on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He is one of only six actors to appear in three different live action Star Trek […]
Happy 2025 Birthday to Lorraine Anderson!
() Happy birthday to Lorraine Anderson! Lorraine Anderson grew up on a free-range chicken ranch in Cupertino, California, in the days when the Santa Clara Valley was still known as the Valley of Heart’s Delight. (It’s now known as Silicon Valley.) She freelances as a writer and editor in Corvallis, Oregon. Check out the Lorraine […]
Happy 2025 Birthday to Jean Lorrah!
(no image available) Happy birthday to Jean Lorrah! Jean Lorrah is the creator of the Savage Empire series and co-author of the Sime~Gen series created by Jacqueline Lichtenberg. She is also a screenwriter, with an optioned screenplay, Coal for Christmas, written with Lois Wickstrom. Be sure to look for her Nessie’s Grotto books with Lois, […]
Happy 2025 Birthday to Bob Ingersoll!
(© Luigi Novi / Wikimedia Commons) Happy birthday to Bob Ingersoll! Robert “Bob” Ingersoll is a Star Trek writer from Ohio with Tony Isabella. He recently collaborated with Thom Zahler on “‘Til Death” in The Sky’s the Limit. He is a lawyer by profession, and worked as an attorney in Cleveland, Ohio. Check out the […]
Happy 2025 Birthday to Aaron Rosenberg!
() Happy birthday to Aaron Rosenberg! AARON ROSENBERG is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of the DuckBob humorous science fiction series and the Dread Remora space-opera series, and the co-author of the O.C.L.T. thriller series and the ReDeus modern-day fantasy series, among others. He’s written tie-in novels (including the PsiPhi winner Collective Hindsight for Star […]
Happy 2025 Birthday to Dan Abnett!
(no image available) Happy birthday to Dan Abnett! Dan Abnett is an English comic book writer and novelist. He has been a frequent collaborator with fellow writer Andy Lanning, and is known for his work on books for both Marvel Comics, and their UK imprint, Marvel UK, since the 1990s, and also 2000 AD. He […]









