Mark A. Altman is a writer/producer, author, and comic book writer having written a number of issues for Malibu Comics, including the entire Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – The Maquis: Soldier of Peace and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – Hearts and Minds series as well as “Terok Nor”. He also contributed a story for DC Comics.

Altman is also the co-author of several unlicensed reference books about the Star Trek saga, all of them with Edward Gross and much of which stemming from his writings for Cinefantastique-magazine. Their latest collaboration, The Fifty-Year Mission, Volume One: The First 25 Years, is the first of a two-volume set, each devoted to 25 years of the franchise, and was released in June 2016.