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Kirsten Beyer
Kirsten Beyer and Nicholas Meyer at Star Trek Mission New York (2016)
Kirsten Beyer (left) and Nicholas Meyer (right) at Star Trek Mission New York (2016)
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
EducationMaster of Fine Arts
Alma materUCLA
GenreScience fiction
Years active2005–present

Kirsten Beyer is an American science fiction writer, best known for her novels based on the Star Trek: Voyager television series. She is a staff writer for Star Trek: Discovery, and functions as the coordinator for Discovery tie-in media, such as comic books and novels, on behalf of CBS.[1]

She has also written for the Buffyverse.

Career

Little is known of Beyer's career prior to her involvement with Star Trek: Voyager.

After corresponding with Voyager show runner Jeri Taylor expressing an interest in writing for television, Beyer was invited to pitch for the series.[2]. She pitched stories from Voyager seasons five (1998) until seven (2000), but none were produced.

Beyer was encouraged to send a query package to Pocket Books by her writing partner, Heather Jarman. The query was accepted, and development of a new Voyager tie-in novel began. However, the editor leading the development moved on to other projects, and the unnamed novel was never realized.[2] Beyer was later introduced to Marco Palmieri, editor of the Star Trek line at Pocket Books, while attending the Shore Leave science fiction convention with Jarman.[3] Palmieri agreed to accept samples of her work, and invited Beyer to write for him a few days later.[2]

Beyer's first published novel with Palmieri was Fusion (November 2005), the second book in the Voyager: String Theory miniseries. A subplot of the novel, involving the Vulcan character Tuvok, was originally a Voyager episode pitch titled "Siren's Song".[2] Another unproduced pitch became the short story "Isabo's Shirt", anthologized in Distant Shores (November 2005). Beyer becoming the lead writer of the Voyager novel series, replacing Christie Golden, with the release of Full Circle in March 2009.[4] She has completed nine novels in the series since 2009, with a tenth planned.[5][6]

In May 2016, Beyer was hired as a staff writer for Star Trek: Discovery.[7] She believes she was recruited because of her familiarity with Star Trek canon, and because of her experience as a tie-in fiction writer.[8] She has contributed to the Discovery comics line published by IDW from its first issue.[9]

Beyer was revealed as a writer of an upcoming Star Trek series, detailing the later years of the character Jean-Luc Picard, via a Twitter post by actor Patrick Stewart.[10]

Beyer regularly attends science fiction conventions such as Star Trek Las Vegas, Shore Leave, and Dragon Con. She frequently appears as a guest on Star Trek-focused podcasts to promote her book releases, and to discuss Discovery production news.

Bibliography

Star Trek: Voyager (2005–present)

  • Fusion (25 October 2005), String Theory #2, Pocket Books ISBN 1-4165-0955-0.
  • "Isabo's Shirt", Distant Shores (November 2005), Marco Palmieri, ed., Pocket Books ISBN 0-7434-9253-6.
  • Full Circle (31 March 2009), Pocket Books ISBN 978-1-4165-9496-3.
  • Unworthy (29 September 2009), Pocket Books ISBN 978-1-4391-0398-2.
  • Children of the Storm (31 May 2011), Pocket Books ISBN 978-1-4516-0718-5.
  • The Eternal Tide (28 August 2012), Pocket Books ISBN 978-1-4516-6818-6.
  • Protectors (28 January 2014), Pocket Books ISBN 978-1-4767-3854-3.
  • Atonement (25 August 2015), Pocket Books ISBN 978-1-4767-9081-7.
  • A Pocket Full of Lies (26 January 2016), Pocket Books ISBN 978-1-4767-9084-8.
  • Architects of Infinity (27 March 2018), Pocket Books ISBN 978-1-5011-3876-8.
  • To Lose the Earth (Upcoming/TBA).

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2008)

Short fiction (2009)

  • "Widow’s Weed’s", Space Grunts: Full Throttle Space Tales #3 (14 May 2009), Dayton Ward, ed., Flying Pen Press ISBN 978-0-9818957-4-1.

Star Trek: Discovery (2017–present)

Episodes (2017)

Beyer is a staff writer for the television series.

  • "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum" (5 November 2017), CBS All Access. Credited as "Written by".

Comics (2017–present)

Credited as "Comic story writer", with Mike Johnson.

  • The Light of Kahless #1 (29 November 2017), IDW Publishing.
  • The Light of Kahless #2 (24 January 2018), IDW Publishing.
  • The Light of Kahless #3 (14 March 2018), IDW Publishing.
  • Star Trek: Discovery Annual 2018 (4 April 2018), IDW Publishing.
  • Succession #1 (18 April 2018), IDW Publishing.
  • Succession #2 (30 May 2018), IDW Publishing.
  • Succession #3 (27 June 2018), IDW Publishing.

See also

References

  1. ^ "INTERVIEW: Discovery Writer, Voyager Novelist Kirsten Beyer". StarTrek.com. CBS Entertainment. 2017-09-23. Retrieved 2018-04-08. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  2. ^ a b c d Ayers, Jeff (14 Nov 2006). Voyages of Imagination. New York: Pocket Books. pp. 299–301. ISBN 1-4165-0349-8.
  3. ^ "Kirsten Beyer interview | Unreality SF". Unreality-SF.net. 2009-04-05. Retrieved 2018-04-08. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  4. ^ "Kirsten Beyer Unleashes a Storm". StarTrek.com. CBS Entertainment. 2011-05-31. Retrieved 2017-11-01. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  5. ^ Fletcher, Harry (June 1, 2016). "Star Trek 2017 TV show hires Voyager novelist Kirsten Beyer". Digital Spy. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
  6. ^ Gunther, Dan; Gibson, Bruce (8 Apr 2018). "A Ship Full of Legends". Literary Treks (Podcast). No. 225. Stellar Debris, Ltd.
  7. ^ "CBS 'Star Trek' 2017 Adds 'Voyager' Novels Writer to Staff". ScreenCrush. 2016-05-30. Retrieved 2018-04-08. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  8. ^ Martinelli, Marissa (2017-09-21). "The Keepers of the Canon". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved 2018-04-08.
  9. ^ "Star Trek: Discovery's Kirsten Beyer Behind Spinoff Comic, Starting In October, From IDW - Bleeding Cool News And Rumors". Bleeding Cool News And Rumors. 2017-07-19. Retrieved 2018-04-08.
  10. ^ "Patrick Stewart on Twitter". Twitter. 2018-09-24. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
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