American author and game designer (1957–2006) whose novel The Final Reflection gave the Klingons a detailed culture, and who also wrote the comic Star Trek novel How Much for Just the Planet?
John M. Ford was an American science-fiction and fantasy writer, poet and game designer, winner of the World Fantasy Award for The Dragon Waiting.
His 1984 Star Trek novel The Final Reflection is told almost entirely from the Klingon side, following the officer Krenn. It portrayed the Klingons as a complex imperial society with its own games, customs and politics, and strongly influenced how fans and role-playing games of the 1980s imagined them, before The Next Generation took the species in a different direction.
Ford also wrote the Klingon material for the Star Trek role-playing game published by FASA. His second novel, How Much for Just the Planet?, published in 1987, is a farce in the style of a stage musical.