American author who launched the post-finale Deep Space Nine novels with the two-part Avatar in 2001 and wrote further relaunch books, Section 31: Cloak and two volumes of Terok Nor.
S.D. Perry was chosen to begin the continuation of Deep Space Nine in prose. Her two-book Avatar (2001) picks up a few months after What You Leave Behind, with Kira in command of the station, and introduces new characters such as Elias Vaughn, Shar and Taran'atar.
She wrote two more key instalments of that relaunch, Rising Son, which follows Jake Sisko into the Gamma Quadrant, and Unity, which resolves the first phase of the story and sees Benjamin Sisko return.
Her other Star Trek books include Section 31: Cloak, an Original Series story, and, with Britta Dennison, Night of the Wolves and Dawn of the Eagles in the Terok Nor trilogy and the Original Series novel Inception.