Kirsten Beyer was a cocreator of the acclaimed hit Paramount+ series Star Trek: Picard, where she served as writer and supervising producer for season one and a coexecutive producer for season two. She has also written and produced Star Trek: Discovery and is currently a coexecutive producer on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the last ten Star Trek: Voyager novels, including 2020’s To Lose the Earth, for which she was the narrator of the audiobook edition. She contributed the short story "Isabo’s Shirt" to Star Trek: Voyager: Distant ShoresAnthology. In 2006, Kirsten appeared at Hollywood’s Unknown Theater in their productions of Johnson Over Jordan, This Old Planet, and Harold Pinter’s The Hothouse, which the Los Angeles Times called "unmissable." She lives in Los Angeles.
Mike Johnson is a
New York Times bestselling writer of comics, games, and animation. Since 2015, he has worked as a writer and creative consultant for ViacomCBS on Star Trek
games and interactive projects.
His work on the Star Trek
franchise began in 2009 with
Star Trek: Countdown, the comics prequel to the blockbuster film
Star Trek directed by J.J. Abrams. Since then, Johnson has written and cowritten the most Star Trek
comics in the franchise’s history. His other credits include
Superman/Batman,
Supergirl,
and
Earth 2 for DC Comics,
Transformers for IDW Publishing, and
Ei8ht from Dark Horse Comics. He also wrote for the Emmy Award-winning animated show
Transformers: Prime. Johnson previously worked in film and TV development for writers/producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.