American playwright and television writer who wrote for the third and fifth seasons of Star Trek: Discovery, including There Is a Tide..., and later for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
Kenneth Lin is an American playwright and screenwriter whose television work includes House of Cards.
He joined Star Trek: Discovery as a co-executive producer for its third season. With Brandon Schultz he wrote The Sanctuary, set on Book's homeworld of Kwejian, and he was sole writer of There Is a Tide..., in which Osyraa's Emerald Chain occupies Discovery inside Federation headquarters. He and Schultz also wrote Whistlespeak for the fifth and final season.
Lin went on to Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. In the first season he co-wrote Come, Let's Away with Kiley Rossetter and shares story credit with Kirsten Beyer on 300th Night.