(no image available) Happy birthday to John J. Ordover! John J. Ordover is a former editor at Pocket Books, and for many years he was responsible for overseeing the company’s line of Star Trek books. He is partially responsible for the “rebirth” of Star Trek fiction in the 1990s, being the driving force behind series-bending […]
(Author Larry Niven at Utopiales 2010 (France), photo by Ceridwen.) Happy birthday to Larry Niven! Laurence van Cott Niven is an American science fiction writer who wrote the Animated Series episode “The Slaver Weapon” and co-authored the Star Trek comic strip story arc “The Wristwatch Plantation”. Niven is best known as the creator of the […]
() Happy birthday to Kate Mulgrew! Kate Mulgrew is an actress who is best known for playing Captain Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager. Before stepping into the role of a Starfleet captain, her claim to fame was playing Mary Ryan on the ABC soap opera Ryan’s Hope. Since then, she has been part of […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Britta Burdett Dennison! With S.D. Perry, she wrote two of the three installments of the Star Trek: Terok Nor miniseries: Night of the Wolves and Dawn of the Eagles, Dennison’s first published works. In 2010, Dennison again collaborated with Perry on the Original Series novel, Inception, and also wrote […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Greg Brodeur! Gregory “Greg” Brodeur has several Star Trek novels with his writing partner Dave Galanter, including the two books in the Maximum Warp series. Brodeur also collaborates with his wife, Diane Carey, and under her name has published many Star Trek novels and novelizations. Check out the Greg […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Peg Robinson! Peg Robinson is a writer who lives in Lompoc, California. Check out the Peg Robinson author page to view more author updates and a full list of books! Find Peg Robinson’s work on Amazon.com
(Photo by Super Festivals – https://www.flickr.com/photos/superfestivals/49133218828) Happy birthday to George Takei! George Takei is an actor who is most famous for portraying Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Animated Series and its spin-off movies. He reprised the role in a guest appearance for the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Flashback”. In […]
() Happy birthday to Keith R.A. DeCandido! Keith R.A. Decandido is a top genre author whose tie-in novels for Pocket include several Star Trek titles across all series as well as Buffy the Vampire Slayer novelizations. He is also known for his Star Trek: The Next Generation comic book miniseries Perchance to Dream, and is […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Kevin Andrew Hosey! Kevin Hosey is an author of science fiction and other genres. He is also a marketing communications professional. Born a “military brat” in Oklahoma, he lived as a small child in New Orleans for a short time, but has spent most of his life in Texas, […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to John Eaves! John Michael Eaves is a concept illustrator and designer who worked as production illustrator on the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine for its last four seasons and on Star Trek: Enterprise in its entirety, as well as on no less than eight Star Trek films. […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Michael A. Martin! Michael A. Martin’s solo short fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He has also coauthored (with Andy Mangels) several Star Trek comics for Marvel and Wildstorm and numerous Star Trek novels and eBooks, including the USA Today bestseller Titan: Book One: […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to William Leisner! William “Bill” Leisner currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Check out the William Leisner author page to view more author updates and a full list of books! Find William Leisner’s work on Amazon.com
(no image available) Happy birthday to Garfield Reeves-Stevens! Garfield Reeves-Stevens, together with his wife Judith Reeves-Stevens, is one of Star Trek’s best-selling original book writers. Together, the Reeves-Stevens couple wrote or co-wrote five episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise’s fourth season. Being Star Trek: The Original Series fans, the couple had already written several fully licensed […]
(Image by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America) Happy birthday to Doug Drexler! Artist Douglas “Doug” Drexler has been creating for, or contributing to, numerous Star Trek productions and publications, both official and unofficial, since the 1970s. Starting out in fandom, Drexler has proven to be one of the most versatile production […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to K.W. Jeter! Kevin Wayne Jeter is an American science fiction and horror author from California. Jeter was born in Los Angeles. At California State University, he met science fiction author Philip K. Dick. The esteemed science fiction writer based a character on him – Kevin in Valis. In common […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Michael Westmore! Michael “Mike” George Westmore was the makeup designer, makeup artist, and makeup supervisor on all of the Star Trek spin-offs set in the prime universe, and created the majority of species that first appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: […]
() Happy birthday to William Shatner! William Shatner, a Canadian-born American Emmy Award-winning actor, became most famous for portraying Captain James Tiberius Kirk of the starship Enterprise in all 79 aired episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series, 21 of the 22 episodes of Star Trek: The Animated Series, and the first seven Star Trek […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Pamela Sargent! Pamela Sargent is an author who wrote a number of Star Trek novels with her writing partner, George Zebrowski. Born in Ithaca, New York, Sargent attended Binghamton University. She has done some editorial work, particularly of anthologies of women’s SF. She has won a number of awards […]
() Happy birthday to John De Lancie! Jonathan “John” de Lancie, Jr. is an actor, director, producer, writer, voice artist, and comedian, best known for his portrayal of Q on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager. He also portrayed the character in Star Trek: The Game Show […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Kevin G. Summers! Kevin G. Summers started as a Star Trek author by entering into the Strange New Worlds writing contests. He was published twice and then went on to write a short story for a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine anthology. Summers grew up in northern Virginia, where […]
