Michael Jan Friedman
Michael Jan Friedman in 1994
Michael Jan Friedman (born 7 March 1955; age 70) is one of the most prolific novelists for Pocket Books' line of Star Trek novels, perhaps best known for creating the characters that would crew the Star Trek: Stargazer series of books. He assisted John J. Ordover in developing the Double Helix six-part miniseries. He also co-wrote the story for the Star Trek: Voyager second season episode "Resistance" and pitched a Kira episode to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
He was interviewed by Michael McAvennie for the article "Michael Jan Friedman – When Darkness Calls", published in The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine issue 9, pp. 56-59.
Friedman is known in comics as a writer of superhero and science fiction/fantasy, as a comic writer he was a regular contributor to various of DC Comics' later Star Trek series.
He is extremely prolific. Of his seventy plus novels, more than half are set in the Trek universe. [1]
Bibliography[]
TV episode[]
- VOY: "Resistance"
Novels[]
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- #45: Double, Double (1989)
- #56: Legacy (1991)
- #58: Faces of Fire (1992)
- #59: The Disinherited (with Peter David and Robert Greenberger, 1992)
- Shadows on the Sun (1993)
- #85-87: My Brother's Keeper (1999)
- #1: Republic
- #2: Constitution
- #3: Enterprise
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- #9: A Call to Darkness (1989)
- #12: Doomsday World (with Carmen Carter, Peter David, and Robert Greenberger, 1990)
- #15: Fortune's Light (1991)
- Reunion (1991)
- Relics (1992)
- All Good Things... (1994)
- #32: Requiem (1994)
- Crossover (1995)
- The Expanse (1996)
- The Captain's Table #2: Dujonian's Hoard (1998)
- #56: Double Helix #6: The First Virtue (with Christie Golden, 1999)
- The Valiant (2000)
- Death in Winter (2005)
- Star Trek: The Next Generation - Starfleet Academy:
- #6: Mystery of the Missing Crew (1995)
- #7: Secret of the Lizard People (1995)
- Star Trek: The Next Generation / X-Men
- Planet X (1998)
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine:
- #18: Saratoga (1996)
- #20: Wrath of the Prophets with Peter David and Robert Greenberger (1997)
- Star Trek: Voyager:
- Day of Honor #3: Her Klingon Soul (1997)
- Day of Honor (1997)
- Star Trek: Stargazer:
- Other
- Starfleet: Year One (2002)
Short stories[]
- The Lives of Dax – "Old Souls" (1999)
- Star Trek: Enterprise Logs – "The Avenger" (2000)
- Tales of the Dominion War – "What Dreams May Come" (2004)
- Tales from the Captain's Table – "Darkness" (2005)
- Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Shards and Shadows – "The Traitor" (2009)
Reference works[]
- Star Trek: Federation Travel Guide (1997)
- A Star to Steer Her By (1997)
- Q's Guide to the Continuum (with Robert Greenberger, 1998)
- New Worlds, New Civilizations (1999)
Comics[]
- DC TOS volume 2:
- Star Trek: The Modala Imperative:
- #1: "A Little Seasoning"
- #2: "Tools of Tyranny"
- #3: "The Price of Freedom"
- #4: "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
- DC TOS Annual:
- #4: "To Walk the Night"
- #5: "The Dream Walkers"
- "TOS Special 3" ("Unforgiven" story)
- Star Trek: The Modala Imperative:
- DC TNG volume 2:
- #1: "Return to Raimon"
- #2: "Murder, Most Foul"
- #3: "The Derelict"
- #4: "The Hero Factor"
- #5: "Serafin's Survivors"
- #6: "Shadows in the Garden"
- #7: "The Pilot"
- #8: "The Battle Within"
- #9: "The Pay Off!"
- #10: "The Noise of Justice"
- #11: "The Impostor"
- #12: "Whoever Fights Monsters"
- #13: "The Hand of the Assassin!"
- #14: "Holiday on Ice"
- #15: "Prisoners of the Ferengi"
- #16: "I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing"
- #17: "The Weapon"
- #19: "The Lesson"
- #20: "The Flight of the Albert Einstein"
- #21: "Mourning Star"
- #22: "Trapped"
- #23: "The Barrier"
- #24: "Homecoming"
- #25: "Wayward Son"
- #26: "Strangers in Strange Lands!"
- #27: "City Life"
- #28: "The Remembered One"
- #30: "The Rift!"
- #31: "Kingdom of the Damned"
- #32: "Wet Behind the Ears"
- #33: "The Way of the Warrior"
- #34: "Devil's Brew!"
- #35: "The Dogs of War"
- #36: "Shore Leave in Shanzibar!"
- #37: "Consorting With the Devil!"
- #38: "Dirty Work"
- #39: "Bridges"
- #40: "Bone of Contention"
- #41: "Separation Anxiety!"
- #42: "Second Chances!"
- #43: "Strange Bedfellows"
- #44: "Restoration"
- #45: "Childish Things"
- #46: "The Maze"
- #47: "The Worst of Both Worlds, Part I!"
- #48: "The Belly of the Beast!"
- #49: "The Armies of the Night"
- #50: "And Death Shall Have No Dominion"
- #52: "The Rich and the Dead!"
- #53: "Reductions & Deductions"
- #54: "Hidden Agendas!"
- #55: "The Good of the Many"
- #56: "Companionship"
- #57: "Of Two Minds"
- #58: "Bodies of Evidence"
- #59: "Children of Chaos"
- #60: "Mother of Madness"
- #61: "Brothers in Darkness"
- #62: "The Victim"
- #63: "A Matter of Conscience..."
- #64: "The Deceivers"
- #65: "The Truth Elusive"
- #66: "Just Desserts!"
- #67: "Friends and Other Strangers"
- #68: "The Bajoran and the Beast"
- #69: "Dreams Die"
- #70: "The Last Verse"
- #71: "The First Casualty"
- #72: "A Handful of Dust"
- #73: "The Dying of the Light"
- #74: "Ceremony of Innocence"
- #75: "Cry Havoc"
- #76: "Suspect"
- #77: "Gateway
- #78: "The Unconquered"
- #79: "Artificiality"
- #80: "The Abandoned"
- Annuals:
- #2: "Thin Ice"
- #3: "The Broken Moon!"
- #6: "Future Imperiled"
- "TNG Special 2" ("The Choice" and "Out of Time" stories)
- "All Good Things..." (adaptation)
- "Star Trek Generations" (adaptation)
- The Landmark Crossover
- #1: "Prophets and Losses"
- #2: "The Wormhole Trap" (co-plotting with Mike W. Barr)
- #3: "Encounter With the Othersiders" (co-plotting with Mike W. Barr)
- #4: "The Unseen Enemy"
- Star Trek: The Next Generation - Shadowheart
- #1: "The Lion and the Lamb"
- #2: "Dealers in Darkness"
- #3: "My Brother's Keeper"
- #4: "The Prince of Madness"
External links[]
- MichaelJanFriedman.net – official site
- Michael Jan Friedman at Wikipedia
- Michael Jan Friedman at the Internet Movie Database
- Michael Jan Friedman at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Michael Jan Friedman at SF-Encyclopedia.com