James Swallow

James Swallow is a British author, journalist, and scriptwriter.

Swallow is the only British writer to have worked on a Star Trek television series, having written the original story premises for and, two episodes of the series ; he also wrote the script for the videogame Star Trek: Invasion.

His writing includes "Closure", a story for the Voyager 10th anniversary anthology Distant Shores and "Ordinary Days", a story for the 20th anniversary anthology The Sky's the Limit. Swallow's story, "Seeds of Dissent", features in Infinity's Prism, book one of the Star Trek: Myriad Universes series.

Swallow also wrote Day of the Vipers, the first novel of the Star Trek: Terok Nor mini-series, which was released in, and for which he was awarded a Scribe Award from the International Association of Tie-In Writers for Best Novel – Original (Speculative Fiction).

His contributions include the short story "The Black Flag" in the  Mirror Universe anthology Shards and Shadows, and the sixth Star Trek: Titan novel, Synthesis.

Swallow's short story "The Slow Knife", focusing on the Cardassians, appears in the anthology, Seven Deadly Sins. saw Swallow contribute his first Original Series novel, Cast No Shadow.

In 2013, he wrote the eBook novella The Stuff of Dreams and his novel The Poisoned Chalice, the fourth in The Fall mini-series, became a New York Times bestseller.

As a journalist, his work has appeared in several different official Star Trek publications in several languages (including Star Trek Monthly, Star Trek Fact Files,, Star Trek: The Collector's Edition, Comlink (magazine) and ).

His first (credited) work in Star Trek Monthly was in of that publication.

In, Swallow listed the following as the best episodes from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's first six seasons:

Along with his work on the Final Frontier, he is the author of several original books and tie-in novels, as well as scripts for videogames and audio dramas.

Outside of Star Trek, he has written several stories: the Big Finish audio dramas Singularity, Old Soldiers, Kingdom of Silver and the Cyberman 2 miniseries, the novel Peacemaker and stories in the anthologies Short Trips: Dalek Empire, Short Trips: Destination Prague, Short Trips: Snapshots, Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership and Short Trips: ReCollections. He has also worked on fiction in the worlds of, , and.