American television writer, later a leading writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Battlestar Galactica, whose early freelance sale was the fourth-season Deep Space Nine episode Accession.
Jane Espenson is an American writer and producer. Early in her career she pitched to the Star Trek series through their open submissions policy, and sold the script for Accession to Deep Space Nine.
Broadcast in the fourth season, Accession concerns a Bajoran poet who emerges from the wormhole after two centuries and claims the title of Emissary, which Sisko is at first glad to surrender until the newcomer restores the old caste system.
Espenson went on to a long career in genre television, writing and producing for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, Torchwood and Once Upon a Time.