Oscar-winning American screenwriter who co-created Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and co-runs the latter.
Akiva Goldsman is an American screenwriter, producer and director who won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for A Beautiful Mind. His other films include The Client, I Am Legend and The Da Vinci Code, and he wrote extensively for the series Fringe.
Goldsman joined Star Trek with Discovery, directing the first-season finale Will You Take My Hand? He co-created Star Trek: Picard, directing its first-season finale et in Arcadia ego, and co-created Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, writing and directing its premiere episode.
He serves as co-showrunner of Strange New Worlds with Henry Alonso Myers, with whom he also co-wrote episodes including A Quality of Mercy, shaping the show's return to the standalone, planet-of-the-week episodic storytelling of the original series while allowing room for musical, comedic and animated crossover experiments.