American science-fiction author (1948–2019) who wrote the novelisations of the second, third and fourth Star Trek films and the novels The Entropy Effect and Enterprise: The First Adventure.
Vonda N. McIntyre was an American science-fiction writer who won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for her novel Dreamsnake.
Her Star Trek novel The Entropy Effect, published in 1981, was the first original novel in the Pocket Books line. In it she gave Sulu the first name Hikaru, which was adopted by other writers and finally spoken on screen in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
McIntyre wrote the novelisations of The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock and The Voyage Home, expanding the roles of characters such as Saavik and David Marcus. In 1986 she published Enterprise: The First Adventure, an account of Kirk's first mission in command, issued to mark the twentieth anniversary of the series.