(no image available) Happy birthday to Jeri Taylor! Jeri Cecile Taylor is a television writer and producer best known for her contributions to the Star Trek franchise. Born in Bloomington, Indiana, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Indiana University in 1959 , and her Master’s degree in English from California State […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Sondra Marshak! Sondra Marshak is the author and editor of several early Star Trek novels, and also one of the biographers of William Shatner. She often collaborates with Myrna Culbreath. Check out the Sondra Marshak author page to view more author updates and a full list of books! Find […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Ben Robinson! Ben Robinson is the English writer and editor of several Star Trek-related reference works and projects. Robinson is the grandson of Bernard Robinson, most notably known as the production designer of most Hammer films made from 1957 until 1968. A 1991 University of York graduate holding a […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Paul Kupperberg! Paul Kupperberg is a former editor for DC Comics, and a prolific writer of comic books and newspaper strips. While with DC, he wrote in excess of 600 individual issues in a wide variety of titles, including two in the first Star Trek line, #18: “Rest and […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Kevin Dilmore! Kevin Dilmore is a Kansas-based writer of many Star Trek novels and short stories, specifically in the Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers series. He often collaborates with Dayton Ward. In 1997, he began writing for the Star Trek: Communicator. Before working there, he was a newspaper […]
(Photo by Mikko Aarnio) Happy birthday to Joe Haldeman! Joe William Haldeman is the Oklahoma-born author of Planet of Judgment and World Without End, as well as over twenty other books. He is the younger brother of Jack C. Haldeman II. He graduated from the University of Maryland in 1967 with a BS in Astronomy, […]
(Photo by Drobertpowell ) Happy birthday to Dayton Ward! Dayton Ward is a writer and software developer based out of Kansas City, Missouri. He has written a large number of Star Trek novels and short stories, specifically Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers. He often collaborates with Kevin Dilmore. Ward was born in Tampa, Florida. […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Kristine Kathryn Rusch! Kristine Kathryn Rusch is an American writer and editor. She writes under various pseudonyms in multiple genres, including science fiction, fantasy, mystery, romance, and mainstream. Rusch won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2001 for her story “Millennium Babies” and the 2003 Endeavour Award for […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Myrna Culbreath! Myrna Culbreath is the author and editor of several early Star Trek novels, and also one of the biographers of William Shatner. She collaborates with Sondra Marshak. Check out the Myrna Culbreath author page to view more author updates and a full list of books! Find Myrna […]
(Photo by Super Festivals ) Happy birthday to Mike W. Barr! Mike W. Barr also credited as Mike Barr, is a writer of comic books and novels. Outside of his Star Trek work, he wrote Batman and the Outsiders, Mantra, and Camelot 3000. Check out the Mike W. Barr author page to view more author […]
(Photo by Jvangiel) Happy birthday to Lawrence M. Krauss! Lawrence Maxwell Krauss is a professor of physics and astronomy, and Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. He is also director of its Origins Project. He’s the author of ten popular books, explaining scientific principles and physics for […]
(Photo by by Basilicofresco) Happy birthday to Diane Duane! Diane Elizabeth Duane is the author of numerous Star Trek novels, including The Wounded Sky, Doctor’s Orders and Spock’s World (Pocket TOS), Dark Mirror and Intellivore (Pocket TNG), and the Rihannsu series – My Enemy, My Ally, The Romulan Way, Swordhunt, Honor Blade, and The Empty […]
(Photograph by David Cross ) Happy birthday to David Mack! David Mack has received story credits on two televised episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. His work on Star Trek books includes the ‘minipedia’ guide to the New Frontier universe that accompanies Peter David’s New Frontier series. Check out the David Mack author page […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Edward Gross! Edward Gross is an author and journalist. Gross is the (co-)author of several unauthorized Star Trek reference books. His first Trek work was as a contributing free-lance writer for Starlog Press, the former O’Quinn Studios, for whom he started working from 1986 onward, submitting numerous articles. His […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Ty Templeton! Ty Templeton is a comic book writer from Canada. His career began in the mid-1980s when he wrote and drew Stig’s Inferno for Vortex Comics. That led to further work with DC Comics on titles such as Justice League of America, Superman, and Batman. He then authored […]
(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 […]