American television writer and novelist (1950–2023) who co-wrote the first-season Next Generation episode Where No One Has Gone Before with Diane Duane.
Michael Reaves was an American writer of television, novels and comics, especially prominent in animation, where his work included Batman: The Animated Series and Gargoyles.
With the novelist Diane Duane he wrote Where No One Has Gone Before for the first season of The Next Generation. The script, loosely based on Duane's novel The Wounded Sky, was heavily revised by the production staff, but it introduced the Traveler and first marked out Wesley Crusher as exceptionally gifted.
Reaves also wrote for the unproduced Star Trek: Phase II and later contributed a script to the fan series Star Trek: New Voyages. He died in 2023.