American novelist (1950-2021) whose licensed Star Trek books include Dwellers in the Crucible, Strangers from the Sky and Burning Dreams, a life story of Christopher Pike.
Margaret Wander Bonanno's first Star Trek novel, Dwellers in the Crucible (1985), focused on two original women, a Vulcan and a human, held hostage together. Strangers from the Sky (1987) imagined a secret meeting between humans and Vulcans long before the official first contact.
Her name also appears on Probe (1992), a sequel to The Voyage Home, though she stated that the published text had been largely rewritten by another writer.
She returned to the line in the 2000s with Catalyst of Sorrows for the Lost Era series, Burning Dreams, which tells the life of Christopher Pike from childhood to Talos IV, and Unspoken Truth, a novel about Saavik set after the events on Genesis and Vulcan.