Ben Robinson has been involved with Star Trek for 20 years. Ben was the launch editor of the huge Star Trek Fact Files, went on to edit the US Star Trek: The Magazine, which ran between 1999 and 2003. He has co-written two Haynes Manuals, the first featuring all seven Enterprises, and the second focusing on the Klingon bird-of-prey. Ben created the Starfleet shipyards line of books and co-authored Star Trek Voyager: A Celebration.

Ian Spelling is a veteran entertainment journalist whose Star Trek association dates back to the mid-1980s, when he interviewed Gene Roddenberry for his college newspaper. Ian went on to write for Starlog for more than 20 years, and contributed regularly to Star Trek Monthly/Star Trek Magazine, the official Star Trek movie magazines, and the official The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager magazines. Additionally, he wrote the weekly syndicated column, Inside Trek/Strange Worlds, for 22 years and served as Editor-in-Chief of StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek site, from 2010 to 2019. Ian also beamed onto Star Trek twice as an extra, playing a Bajoran in the Deep Space Nine episode, Sanctuary, and a Drayan soldier in the Voyager episode, Innocence. Ian often moderates panels at Star Trek conventions, including Star Trek Las Vegas, Star Trek: The Cruise, Destination Star Trek and WonderCon@Home.