Pen name of American author Jeanne Kalogridis, who wrote original Star Trek novels in the 1980s and the official novelisations of six feature films from The Final Frontier to Nemesis.
Under the name J.M. Dillard, Jeanne Kalogridis wrote several early Pocket Books novels for the Original Series, including Mindshadow, Demons, Bloodthirst and The Lost Years, the last set at the end of the five-year mission.
She became the regular novelist of the film series, adapting The Final Frontier, The Undiscovered Country, Generations, First Contact, Insurrection and Nemesis. She also novelised the Deep Space Nine pilot Emissary and the Enterprise episode The Expanse, and wrote the original Enterprise novel Surak's Soul.
Her non-fiction history Star Trek: Where No One Has Gone Before appeared in 1994, and she returned to original fiction with the Next Generation novel Resistance in 2007.