Alan Dean Foster is a writer of fantasy and science fiction. His works include Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, the first Star Wars Expanded Universe novel, which was originally written to be filmed as a low-budget sequel to Star Wars if the original film was not a success, the story for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and more than 120 standalone novels including the Humanx Commonwealth novels, Icerigger Trilogy, and Spellsinger series. Michael Kogge is a screenwriter and author of Jedi Challenges, Last Jedi, TFA, Batman, Fantastic Beasts, and Empire of the Wolf.