American television writer who served as executive story editor during the third season of The Next Generation, writing Déjà Q and sharing the teleplay of Booby Trap, and later contributed to Deep Space Nine.
Richard Danus is an American television writer who joined the staff of Star Trek: The Next Generation as executive story editor in its third season, when Michael Piller was rebuilding the writers' room.
He shared the teleplay credit on Booby Trap, in which Geordi La Forge works with a holographic Leah Brahms, and is the credited writer of Déjà Q, in which Q is stripped of his powers and dumped on the Enterprise bridge as a human.
Danus left the staff during that season but returned to the franchise as a freelancer, sharing the teleplay of the first-season Deep Space Nine episode Battle Lines with Evan Carlos Somers.