American author and academic who moved from Star Trek fanzine writing to four licensed novels: The Vulcan Academy Murders, The IDIC Epidemic, Survivors and Metamorphosis.
Jean Lorrah was already well known in fandom for fanzine fiction about Sarek and Amanda before she wrote for Pocket Books.
The Vulcan Academy Murders (1984) is a mystery set on Vulcan in which Kirk investigates deaths at the Science Academy while Amanda undergoes treatment there. Its sequel, The IDIC Epidemic (1988), concerns a plague on a planet shared by many species.
She then wrote two Next Generation novels. Survivors (1989) tells the story of Tasha Yar's escape from her failed home colony and is framed around the events of Skin of Evil. Metamorphosis (1990), about Data briefly becoming human, was the first of the line's longer giant novels for that series.