American author of numerous licensed Star Trek novels, chiefly for The Next Generation, including Masks, Contamination, the Genesis Wave series and two volumes of The Dominion War.
John Vornholt, a former journalist and screenwriter, began writing Next Generation novels in 1989 with Masks, followed by Contamination, War Drums and Rogue Saucer. He also wrote the Original Series novel Sanctuary and the Deep Space Nine novel Antimatter.
In 1998 he wrote the two Next Generation volumes of the four-book Dominion War series, Behind Enemy Lines and Tunnel Through the Stars, showing what the Enterprise-E did during the conflict seen on Deep Space Nine. The Genesis Wave books revived the Genesis Device from the films as a weapon.
His later work includes A Time to Be Born and A Time to Die, which opened the nine-book series leading into Nemesis, and adaptations of the Next Generation films for younger readers.