American writer and producer, a veteran of The X-Files, who spent the second season of Star Trek: Enterprise as co-executive producer and wrote Minefield, Dawn and Canamar.
John Shiban is an American television writer and producer who made his name on The X-Files, where he wrote for several seasons alongside Vince Gilligan and Frank Spotnitz.
He joined Star Trek: Enterprise as co-executive producer for its second season. He wrote Minefield, which pins Malcolm Reed to the hull beside a Romulan mine, Dawn, in which Trip Tucker is marooned with a hostile alien pilot, and Canamar, in which Archer and Tucker are put aboard a prison transport. With Chris Black he also co-wrote The Breach and First Flight.
Shiban left after one season and went on to Supernatural, Breaking Bad and Hell on Wheels.