American science fiction author known for continuity-minded Star Trek novels such as Ex Machina, The Buried Age, the Department of Temporal Investigations books and the Enterprise-era Rise of the Federation series.
Christopher L. Bennett's first Star Trek novel, Ex Machina (2005), was a sequel to The Motion Picture that also followed up the Original Series episode For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky.
He went on to write the Titan novels Orion's Hounds and Over a Torrent Sea, the Next Generation books The Buried Age, which fills in Picard's years between the Stargazer and the Enterprise-D, and Greater Than the Sum. Watching the Clock and Forgotten History built whole novels around agents Lucsly and Dulmur of Temporal Investigations.
From 2013 his Rise of the Federation series continued the story of Jonathan Archer and his crew after Enterprise. Later Original Series novels include The Captain's Oath, The Higher Frontier and Living Memory.