British author and academic who has written numerous Star Trek novels, notably Cardassian stories such as The Never-Ending Sacrifice and the first Picard tie-in, The Last Best Hope.
Una McCormack is a British novelist and former university lecturer who writes tie-in fiction for Star Trek and Doctor Who as well as original work.
Her early Star Trek books concentrate on Deep Space Nine and especially on Cardassia and the character of Garak. They include Hollow Men, The Never-Ending Sacrifice, which follows the Cardassian boy Rugal from the episode Cardassians through the Dominion War, and The Crimson Shadow.
In 2020 she wrote The Last Best Hope, the first novel based on Star Trek: Picard, describing the Romulan evacuation and Picard's resignation from Starfleet. She has also written The Way to the Stars for Discovery and The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway.