American writer who earned a story credit on the Voyager episode Prime Factors and later wrote many licensed novels, including The 34th Rule, the Crucible trilogy and several Deep Space Nine relaunch books.
David R. George III and Eric A. Stillwell sold the story that became the first-season Voyager episode Prime Factors, in which the crew are tempted by Sikarian technology that could shorten their journey home.
His first novel, The 34th Rule (1999), was written with Armin Shimerman and centres on Quark. He then became a regular contributor to the Deep Space Nine relaunch with Twilight, and wrote Serpents Among the Ruins for the Lost Era series, about Captain John Harriman and the Enterprise-B.
For the fortieth anniversary in 2006 he wrote the Crucible trilogy, three novels focused in turn on McCoy, Spock and Kirk. Later books include Rough Beasts of Empire and further Deep Space Nine novels set after the Typhon Pact storyline.