American television writer who wrote the Short Trek Ask Not and joined Discovery for its third season as a co-executive producer, writing the teleplay of Terra Firma, Part 2.
Kalinda Vazquez first wrote for the franchise with Ask Not (2019), a Short Treks instalment in which Cadet Thira Sidhu is left guarding a prisoner who turns out to be Captain Pike, as part of a test of her resolve.
She then joined the writing staff of Discovery for the third season as a co-executive producer. She wrote the teleplay for Terra Firma, Part 2, which completes Emperor Georgiou's attempt to change her past in the mirror universe and sends the character on through the Guardian of Forever.
In 2021 it was reported that she had been engaged to write a Star Trek feature film; no such film had been made by the end of 2024.