American science fiction novelist (1951–2018) who co-wrote the Next Generation episode Tin Man and shared the teleplay credit on First Contact.
David Bischoff was an American author of science fiction and fantasy novels, film novelisations and tie-in books.
With Dennis Putman Bailey he wrote Tin Man for the third season of The Next Generation, drawing on a novel the two had written together. The episode brings the troubled Betazoid telepath Tam Elbrun to the Enterprise to make contact with a living starship. The same partnership has a share of the teleplay credit on First Contact in the fourth season.
Bischoff also wrote Star Trek tie-in fiction, including the Next Generation novel Grounded. He died in 2018.