Television writer and producer who, with writing partner Erika Lippoldt, scripted several Star Trek: Discovery episodes across its first three seasons and received story credit on the 2025 film Star Trek: Section 31.
Bo Yeon Kim is a television writer and producer who works in partnership with Erika Lippoldt. She joined Star Trek: Discovery as executive story editor in its first season, became a co-producer in the second and a supervising producer in the third.
With Lippoldt she wrote Into the Forest I Go, The Sound of Thunder, Through the Valley of Shadows and People of Earth, as well as the Short Treks instalment The Brightest Star, which tells of Saru's departure from Kaminar. The pair also share story credit on both parts of Terra Firma, which wrote Philippa Georgiou out of the series.
In 2019 Kim and Lippoldt were named showrunners of a planned Section 31 series for Michelle Yeoh. When it was reworked as a film, released in January 2025, they were credited with its story.