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David Alan Mack

b. 1969

American writer

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About David Alan Mack

Born 1969. David Alan Mack is an American novelist, science fiction writer, podcaster, screenwriter and writer.

David Alan Mack is an American writer best known for his freelance Star Trek novels. Mack also has had a Star Trek script produced, and worked on a Star Trek comic book.

Early career Mack attended New York University Tisch School of the Arts as an undergraduate from 1987 to 1991. There he majored in film and television production and screenwriting as well as writing for the student-run comedy magazine, The Plague.

After 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. Ordover, then an editor in Pocket Books' Star Trek Department. Working together, the pair combined Ordover's ability to arrange pitch meetings with the shows' producers with Mack's training in screenwriting.

In 1995, the pair made their first story sale, to Star Trek: Voyager, though the project was never produced. A few weeks later they made another sale, this time to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, for the fourth-season episode "Starship Down". 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. That series, Star Trek: Prodigy, premiered on that network on October 28, 2021.

Mack has won the Scribe Award six times and in 2022 was elected Grandmaster of the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers.

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New York University Tisch School of the Arts
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Who is David Alan Mack?

American writer

When was David Alan Mack born?

David Alan Mack was born on 12 May 1969.

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David Alan Mack is a novelist, science fiction writer, podcaster, screenwriter and writer.

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David Alan Mack is American.

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· Wikipedia: David Alan Mack

· Wikidata: Q5230665

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