Mack also wrote Harbinger, the first volume of the Star Trek: Vanguard novel series, which he co-developed with editor Marco Palmieri. Mack's first direct-to-paperback novels were a Star Trek: The Next Generation duology: A Time To Kill and A Time To Heal.

He next wrote the short stories 'Waiting for G'Doh, or, How I Learned to Stop Moving and Hate People' for the anthology Star Trek: New Frontier: No Limits and 'Twilight's Wrath' for the anthology Star Trek: Tales of the Dominion War. His other SCE e-books are Failsafe and Small World. Mack's first solo project was the two-part SCE e-book novel Wildfire. (From left to right:) Mack, Will Sliney and Keith DeCandido at a signing at Forbidden Planet in Manhattan, April 22, 2010 DeCandido, Mack co-wrote the two-part Starfleet Corps of Engineers (SCE) e-book story Invincible. Mack and Ordover wrote the four-part Deep Space Nine/ Next Generation comic book miniseries Divided We Fall for WildStorm. That work led to Mack being invited to draft a 5,000-word supplement for John Vornholt's novel The Genesis Wave, Book One, which in turn earned Mack an invitation in 2000 to write his own first full-length Star Trek book. ĭuring the 1990s, Mack performed freelance editorial work for Pocket Books. Another story pitched by the pair during that same meeting was bought three years later, as the basis for the seventh-season episode ' It's Only a Paper Moon', for which the pair received a 'story by' credit. A few weeks later they made another sale, this time to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, for the fourth-season episode ' Starship Down'. In 1995, the pair made their first story sale, to Star Trek: Voyager, though the project was never produced. Working together, the pair combined Ordover's ability to arrange pitch meetings with the shows' producers with Mack's training in screenwriting. Ordover, then an editor in Pocket Books' Star Trek Department. Īfter receiving several rejections on early spec-script submissions to Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Mack teamed up with John J. There he majored in film and television production and screenwriting as well as writing for the student-run comedy magazine, The Plague. Mack attended New York University Tisch School of the Arts as an undergraduate from 1987 to 1991. Mack also has had a Star Trek script produced, and worked on a Star Trek comic book.

David Alan Mack is a writer best known for his freelance Star Trek novels.

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