American author of more than thirty Star Trek books, including Dreadnought!, Final Frontier, Best Destiny, the first original Next Generation novel Ghost Ship, and novelisations of many landmark episodes.
Diane Carey entered the Pocket Books line in 1986 with Dreadnought! and its sequel Battlestations!, both narrated by a young officer named Piper. Final Frontier and Best Destiny explored the early voyages of the Enterprise under Robert April and the youth of James Kirk.
Ghost Ship (1988) was the first original novel based on The Next Generation. Carey, an experienced sailor of tall ships, often brought a nautical flavour to her work, as in Ship of the Line, which follows Captain Morgan Bateson of the USS Bozeman after Cause and Effect.
She also became the line's most frequent adapter of television episodes, novelising The Way of the Warrior, Trials and Tribble-ations, Flashback, What You Leave Behind, Endgame and the Enterprise pilot Broken Bow.