Kirsten Beyer

Kirsten Beyer is a Star Trek writer and author who lives in Los Angeles, California.

In, it was announced that Beyer had taken over authorship of the Voyager relaunch novels, set after the television series, from Christie Golden. Beyer had previously written a Voyager novel, , and a short story for the anthology Distant Shores, both set during the run of. Her first book in the relaunch, Full Circle, was released in and she has written every Voyager novel published since.

In, she joined the writing room for as a staff writer,  for which she wrote the first season episode. Beyer is also responsible for coordinating the series' spin-off media products, working with Pocket Books on the Discovery novels and IDW Publishing on their  comic book series. Together with Mike Johnson, she co-wrote the comic series Star Trek: Discovery - The Light of Kahless, Star Trek: Discovery Annual 2018, and Star Trek: Discovery - Succession. As of the second season episode, she was credited as executive story editor.

She is also a writer on the starring Patrick Stewart. According to Ted Sullivan, the series is the "brain child" of Beyer.

Writing credits

 * Episodes


 * Star Trek novels
 * Pocket VOY
 * String Theory #2: 
 * Distant Shores, "Isabo's Shirt"
 * Full Circle
 * Unworthy
 * Children of the Storm
 * The Eternal Tide
 * Protectors
 * Acts of Contrition
 * Atonement
 * A Pocket Full of Lies
 * Architects of Infinity
 * To Lose the Earth (announced)