Star Trek author Vonda N. McIntyre died yesterday after a long battle with metastatic pancreatic cancer. She was 70 years old.
A winner of both the Nebula and Hugo awards, she’s best known by the masses for a single name she contributed to the Star Trek mythos: Hikaru, Sulu’s given first name in the novel The Entropy Effect. The name became canon when writer Peter David visited the set of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country to prepare for the film’s comics adaptation. He convinced Nicholas Meyer to insert in the script, making a certain set of fans (including myself) very happy.
Thank you for everything, Vonda.
