Mexican-American screenwriter and producer (1973–2025) who co-wrote Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness and served as a producer on all three Kelvin timeline films.
Roberto Orci (1973–2025) was a Mexican-born American writer and producer, long partnered with Alex Kurtzman on television series such as Alias and Fringe and on several blockbuster films.
Orci and Kurtzman wrote the screenplay of Star Trek (2009), which relaunched the franchise with a new cast in an alternate reality created by the destruction of the USS Kelvin. Orci, a lifelong fan, was the main advocate of tying the new films to the original continuity through Leonard Nimoy's Spock.
He co-wrote Star Trek Into Darkness with Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof and produced it, and he remained a producer on Star Trek Beyond in 2016.