(no image available) Happy birthday to Rick Berman! Richard Keith Berman is a veteran writer and producer of American television. He was the executive producer of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1991-1994) and co-creator of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Enterprise. He also produced and co-wrote four Star Trek films. Check […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Bobbi JG Weiss! Bobbi JG Weiss has been a full-time freelance writer for many years. She and her husband, writer David Cody Weiss, began their careers focusing on Hollywood tie-in merchandise like games and MMOs for Disney, movie/TV show novels, comic books and graphic novels, and many other products. […]
(image Credit: Mike Muegel) Happy birthday to Nicholas Meyer! Nicholas Meyer directed Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. He wrote the screenplays for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Star Trek VI. Though never credited for his efforts, Meyer rewrote much of the screenplay for The […]
(Image by Gage Skidmore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Isabella#/media/File:Tony_Isabella_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg) Happy birthday to Tony Isabella! Tony Isabella is a comic book and novel writer. He has worked on two Star Trek publications, both with Bob Ingersoll, who is also from Ohio. In addition to his Star Trek works, he is credited with the creation of the DC Comics characters “Black […]
(J.M. Dillard aka Jeanne Kalogridis – Aug 1989 – Star Trek Convention – Tampa, Florida Photo by Alan C. Teeple) Happy birthday to J.M. Dillard! Jeanne M. Dillard is a pseudonym for Jeanne Kalogridis. She is an author who has written many Star Trek books as “J. M. Dillard”. She is notable for writing the […]
(Photograph courtesy of the author) Happy birthday to Greg Cox! Greg Cox is an American writer of science fiction, including works that are media tie-ins. He lives in Oxford, Pennsylvania. He has written numerous Star Trek novels, including The Eugenics Wars (Volume One and Two), The Q Continuum, Assignment: Eternity, and The Black Shore. His […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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, […]
(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 […]
(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 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 […]
(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 […]
(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 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 a number of his original novels, such […]
(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 author page to view more author updates and a full list […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
