American writer who sold the Animated Series episode The Pirates of Orion while still a teenager and later wrote licensed Star Trek novels and a long run of DC comics.
Howard Weinstein wrote The Pirates of Orion, the opening episode of the second season of The Animated Series in 1974, in which Spock falls ill and the drug he needs is stolen by Orions. He was nineteen when it was produced.
His first novel, The Covenant of the Crown, was published in 1981. Deep Domain followed in 1987, and for The Next Generation he wrote Power Hungry, Exiles and Perchance to Dream. The Better Man (1994) is an Original Series novel centred on McCoy.
In the early 1990s he was the regular writer of DC Comics' monthly Original Series title, set in the period of the later films.