American novelist and comics writer (1956–2025) who wrote many of the best-selling Star Trek novels, including Imzadi, Q-Squared and Vendetta, and created the New Frontier series.
Peter David was an American writer of novels, comics, film and television, celebrated in comics for a long run on The Incredible Hulk.
He wrote Star Trek comics for DC in the late 1980s and then a string of popular novels based on The Next Generation, among them Strike Zone, Vendetta, Q-in-Law, Q-Squared and Imzadi, which tells how Riker and Troi first met on Betazed.
In 1997 he launched Star Trek: New Frontier, the first series of Star Trek novels built around an original ship and crew, the USS Excalibur under Captain Mackenzie Calhoun, with supporting characters borrowed from the television series, such as Commander Shelby and Dr Selar. He continued the series for many years.