American freelance writer who, with his writing partner Jean Louise Matthias, sold stories and scripts to The Next Generation and Voyager, among them Lessons, Lower Decks and Learning Curve.
Ronald Wilkerson is an American writer who worked in partnership with Jean Louise Matthias and became one of the most frequent outside contributors to Star Trek in the 1990s.
For The Next Generation the pair shared story credits on Imaginary Friend and Schisms, wrote Lessons, in which Picard falls in love with the head of stellar cartography, and devised the story for Lower Decks, which follows four junior officers.
They went on to write Learning Curve, the final episode of Voyager's first season, in which Tuvok drills a group of undisciplined Maquis crew members, and supplied the story for the third-season Voyager episode Fair Trade.