American comedy writer and producer who joined the staff of Star Trek: Enterprise, wrote episodes including Judgment and North Star, and later wrote in-universe Star Trek books.
David A. Goodman is an American television writer and producer associated with Family Guy and The Orville. In 2002 he wrote Where No Fan Has Gone Before, the Futurama episode that reunited most of the original Star Trek cast.
He joined Enterprise as a writer-producer during its second season and stayed to the end. His scripts include Judgment, in which Archer is tried by a Klingon tribunal, Precious Cargo, the Western-styled North Star and, with Chris Black, The Forgotten.
Goodman has since written several books presented as documents from within the fiction, among them Federation: The First 150 Years and The Autobiography of James T. Kirk, followed by similar volumes for Picard and Spock.