American novelist and television writer who supplied the story for The Next Generation's The Masterpiece Society and returned a decade later as supervising producer on the final season of Star Trek: Voyager.
James Kahn is an American writer who trained as a physician before turning to fiction, becoming known for film novelisations including Return of the Jedi and Poltergeist, and then for television drama.
His first Star Trek credit was a shared story credit on The Masterpiece Society in the fifth season of The Next Generation. He joined Star Trek: Voyager for its seventh and last season as a supervising producer.
On Voyager he wrote the teleplay for Critical Care, in which the Doctor is stolen and put to work in an alien hospital that rations treatment by social worth, and shared the teleplay of The Void with Raf Green.