American fantasy and science-fiction author who wrote Star Trek novels including The Wounded Sky and Spock's World and co-wrote the Next Generation episode Where No One Has Gone Before.
Diane Duane is an American author, known outside Star Trek for the Young Wizards books.
Her first Star Trek novel, The Wounded Sky, appeared in 1983. It was followed by My Enemy, My Ally and the other books of her Rihannsu sequence, which invented a detailed culture and language for the Romulans, as well as Spock's World, Doctor's Orders and the Next Generation mirror-universe novel Dark Mirror.
With Michael Reaves she wrote the teleplay of Where No One Has Gone Before, the first-season episode of The Next Generation that introduced the Traveler and drew on ideas from The Wounded Sky. She has also written Star Trek comics and games.