James Van Hise

James Van Hise was a prolific comic book author and a pop-culture historian who wrote extensively about film, television, and comics in the Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy genres. In the 1970s he created and edited the Star Trek fan magazine Enterprise Incidents; during the 1980s and 1990s, he not only wrote a plethora of reference guides to the Star Trek shows, but to numerous other genre productions as well.
Almost all of his reference works were published by the Schuster & Schuster publishing conglomerate, but there are titles known he had written in part or in whole for third-party publishers. Two of them he did as exclusives for Japanese publishing company Japan Mix, Inc. and of which one was Star Trek-themed, the February 1995 Star Trek Studies title. Japan Mix had the author's name translated to ジェームズ•ヴァン ハイス ("Jēmuzu vu~an haisu") in Japanese script, which in turn re-translates to "James Van Heiss" in Latin script.
In addition to writing about Star Trek, Van Hise also submitted at least one undeveloped story idea for , which was titled "Deadworld". 
According to Van Hise:
:"I wrote the story in at the behest of a mutual friend of Gerd Oswald. Oswald had directed a couple of Star Trek episodes in the sixties and I'd spoken to him while he was directing an episode of the new Twilight Zone for CBS when I visited that studio in 1986. Oswald was looking for a story he could take to Paramount for The Next Generation which he could attach himself to as the director. He read this outline but rejected it as being 'too depressing.' I told my friend that Gerd, who was then in his seventies, was obviously a man who had never come to terms with his own mortality. Gerd Oswald died two years later of cancer." (Trek: The Next Generation)
==Bibliography==
*Reference works
**The Best of Enterprise Incidents: The Magazine for Star Trek Fans
**The Classic Trek Crew Book
**Deep Space Crew Book
**Deep Space Nine: A Celebration
**The History of Trek
**Let's Trek: The Budget Guide to the Federation 1995
**Let's Trek: The Budget Guide to the Klingons 1995
**The Making of The Next Generation
**The Man Between the Ears: Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy
**The Man Who Created Star Trek: Gene Roddenberry
**The Ships of Star Trek
**The Special Effects of Trek
**The Trek 25th Anniversary Celebration
**The Trek Celebration Two
**The Trek Celebration Three
**The Trek Crew Book
**The Trek Crew Companion
**Trek Fan's Handbook
**Trek in the 24th Century: The Next Generation and Deep Space
**Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Unauthorized Story
**Trek: The Encyclopedia
**Trek: The Lost Years
**Trek: The Next Generation
**Trek: The Next Generation Crew Book
**Trek: Next Generation Tribute Book
**The Next Generation Tribute Book Two
**The Next Generation Tribute Book 3
**Trek: The Printed Adventures
**Trek: The Unauthorized Behind-The-Scenes Story of The Next Generation
**Trek: The Unauthorized Story of the Movies
**Trek vs. The Next Generation
**The Unauthorized History of Trek
**The Unauthorized Trek: Deep Space The Voyage Continues
**The Unauthorized Trekker's Guide to The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine
*Articles
**"Gene Winfield", , issue 53, December 1981, pp. 26-29, 64
**"The 'Star Trek' Bloopers", Starlog, issues 54-56, 58, January-March, May 1982.
**"Brick Price Movie Miniatures: The Group that Star Trek Forgot", Enterprise Incidents; special edition on the technical side, 1984, pp. 35-56.
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