American screenwriter who, with his writing partner Peter Krikes, wrote the first screenplay drafts of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and shares the film's screenplay credit.
Steve Meerson and his writing partner Peter Krikes were engaged by Paramount to write Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home from the story worked out by Leonard Nimoy and Harve Bennett, in which the former Enterprise crew travel back to twentieth-century San Francisco to bring humpback whales to the future.
Their drafts were written at a time when the film was expected to include a part for Eddie Murphy. When that plan fell through, Bennett and Nicholas Meyer rewrote the script, Bennett taking the scenes in the twenty-third century and Meyer those in 1986.
The finished film credits the screenplay to Meerson and Krikes and to Bennett and Meyer. The pair's other work includes the 1999 film Anna and the King.