Television writer and producer who, with writing partner Bo Yeon Kim, wrote episodes of Star Trek: Discovery in its first three seasons and shares the story credit on the 2025 film Star Trek: Section 31.
Erika Lippoldt is a television writer and producer whose Star Trek work was all done in partnership with Bo Yeon Kim. The two joined the Star Trek: Discovery writing staff for its first season and rose through the producing ranks over the following two years.
Their Discovery scripts are Into the Forest I Go, in which the ship makes its long series of spore jumps around the Klingon Ship of the Dead, the Kelpien story The Sound of Thunder, Through the Valley of Shadows and People of Earth. They also wrote the Short Treks episode The Brightest Star and devised the story of the two-part Terra Firma with Alan McElroy.
Lippoldt and Kim were announced in 2019 as showrunners of a Section 31 spin-off series. The project eventually became the film Star Trek: Section 31, on which they are credited with the story and Craig Sweeny with the screenplay.