RIP Star Trek novelist Dave Galanter

 

Most, if not all, "Star Trek" novelists are huge fans of the franchise for decades. But only a select group of fans, who spent years writing fan fiction, going to endless conventions and meeting fans just as dedicated to Gene Roddenberry’s creation, get a chance to actually publish a novel that gets released to the mass audience.

 

One such writer was Dave Galanter, who passed away on December 12 after a yearlong fight with bile cancer. He was just 51.

 

Galanter’s, with his writing partner Greg Brodeur, first “Star Trek” novel was 1994’s TNG tale “Foreign Foes.” They also penned the VOY novel “Battle Lines” (1999) and came back to the TNG universe with two books in the “Maximum Warp” series “Dead Zone” and “Forever Dark” (both 2001). They continued with two volumes in the Starfleet Corps of Engineers (SCE) line, “Ambush” (2001) and “Bitter Medicine” (2004). His story “Eleven Hours Out” was part of the “Tales of the Dominion Wars” (2006). He would contribute another story, “The Leader,” to the anthology “Constellations” (2006) and release an e-book titled “Shadows of the Indignant” (2006), which was part of Pocket Books TOS “Mere Anarchy” series. Then came his first solo TOS novel, “Troublesome Minds” (2009), followed by “Crisis of Consciousness” (2016), and the DISCO book “Dead Endless” (2019). Galanter also wrote an episode of the online fan production “Star Trek: New Voyages” titled “Enemy: Starfleet”

 

Galanter was born in Royal Oak, Michigan and eventually settled in Maryland with his wife and their cats, as well as his brother and sister-in-law and their children.

 

He also survived by a great number of reading and convention fans and personal and fellow writer friends from the world of "Star Trek."