We thought it would be a quiet weekend with the USA on holiday, but today some more news has broken about next year’s STAR TREK television revival!

Kirsten Beyer, who has been crafting the Star Trek: Voyager relaunch novel series since 2009, confirmed to TrekCore that she will be joining Bryan Fuller and the rest of the writing staff for the 2017 Star Trek series coming to CBS All Access.

Beyer has written eight full-length novels covering the ongoing adventures of the USS Voyager crew after the return from the Delta Quadrant, a role she took over from novelist Christie Golden, who left the Voyager book series in 2004.

The author has been praised for her knack with tying disparate bits of Trek continuity together in her novels, tying relatively obscure or one-time events from the Voyager television episodes into her writing, and may bring a similar skill set to the Trek 2017 writers room.

We’ve spoken to Beyer several times in the past, perhaps most expansively in our two-part 2013 interview with the novelist here at TrekCore, as well as in our 2014 follow-up – but be warned, those interviews contain spoilers for the Voyager novel series!

If you haven’t followed the Voyager relaunch series, you can get caught up with Beyer’s Voyager Relaunch Primer, written by the author for TrekCore covering her first four books, as well as our reviews for 2013’s “Protectors,” 2014’s “Acts of Contrition,” 2015’s “Atonement,” and 2016’s “A Pocket Full of Lies.”