Stanley Mirvis is a social historian of the Jewish people at Arizona State University and a lifelong Star Trek enthusiast. As a child, he dressed as Commander William Riker. While he may never reach Riker-level coolness, he hopes one day to attain at least Mr. Mot-level competence. It is in this spirit that he writes Star Trek fan fiction, exploring the political, philosophical, and spiritual implications of the Star Trek universe grounded in canon.

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He is the author of The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition (Yale University Press, 2020), as well as over a dozen articles and book chapters on Jews in the early modern Atlantic world and the Judeo-Portuguese diaspora.

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His first Trek novel, Broken Vessels, is the opening installment of The Light of the Emissary trilogy.

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Additional novels are in progress.