American television writer who wrote Peak Performance and co-wrote The Enemy for The Next Generation before becoming executive producer and principal writer of the science fiction series Farscape.
David Kemper is an American writer and producer who sold two scripts to Star Trek: The Next Generation as a freelancer.
The first was Peak Performance, the second-season episode in which Riker commands the antique USS Hathaway in a war game against the Enterprise and Data doubts himself after losing at Strategema. The second was The Enemy in the third season, credited to Kemper and Michael Piller, which strands Geordi La Forge with a Romulan on Galorndon Core.
Kemper went on to write for seaQuest DSV and other series, and is best known as executive producer of Farscape, for which he wrote many episodes and the concluding miniseries The Peacekeeper Wars.