David Mack Writer David Alan Mack has co - written two episodes of and several " Star Trek " novels and short stories . He and John J . Ordover co - wrote the 1995 " Deep Space Nine " episode and the story treatment for the 1999 episode . They also collaborated on the comic book mini - series " " from WildStorm Comics . Mack also wrote the dialogue for the " Deep Space Nine " video games and , and the character bios for " " . His novels include " Harbinger " and " Reap the Whirlwind " , the first and third volumes of a new Star Trek novel series , " " ; the " Time to . . . " duology " A Time to Kill " and " A Time to Heal " ; " Warpath " , part of the popular Deep Space Nine relaunch series , and the " " novella " " . Mack also contributed the additional novella " Saturn ' s Children " under the pseudonym Sarah Shaw . Due to a mix - up in the Pocket Books editorial department , Mack had been contracted to provide two stories in the " Star Trek : Mirror Universe " anthology collections . Since the offers could not be rescinded , the editors requested that Mack write one of the stories under a pseudonym , which he himself derived – Shaw . Mack noted that working under the pseudonym " " freed me up , in a sense , to approach " Saturn ' s Children " with a different style . I wrote it much more quickly than I normally do , and by imagining I was a different author I ended up working from a different mindset . It was an intriguing experience . " " . He wrote the tongue - in - cheek reference work " " in . Mack has also worked with Keith R . A . DeCandido on the " " eBook series , contributing the two - part novels " Invincible , Part One " and " Part Two " and " Wildfire , Book 1 " and " Book 2 " , as well as the single volumes " Failsafe " , and " Small World " . His " Star Trek " short stories include the Shinzon story " Twilight ' s Wrath " , in the " Tales of the Dominion War " anthology , and the Zak Kebron story " Waiting for G ' Doh , or , How I Learned to Stop Moving and Hate People " , in the " " anthology " No Limits " . Another short story – " For Want of a Nail " – appeared in the " Mirror Universe " anthology " Shards and Shadows " . Mack ' s most extensive project is the crossover trilogy " " , released in late , which featured characters from a number of " Star Trek " series , and affected the story lines of most of the ongoing novel series . Mack ' s latest projects include the first novel in the " " miniseries , " Zero Sum Game " , one of four novellas in the " Vanguard " collection " Declassified " , and the culmination of the Memory Omega storyline in the " Mirror Universe " series , " Rise Like Lions " . On , Mack revealed that he had signed contracts with Pocket Books for four more " Trek " novels to be released in – the eighth installment in the " Vanguard " series , " Storming Heaven " , and the " " trilogy . Mack ' s contribution to the series of books set after , " More Beautiful Than Death " , is currently " on hold " – along with the other planned releases in that series – following executive decisions at Pocket . He will be writing the first novel . Mack has been nominated for four Scribe Award s : " The Sorrows of Empire " in 2011 , " The Persistence of Memory " in 2013 , " Disavowed " in 2015 , and " Long Shot " in 2016 .