John J. Ordover

American businessman and writer

John J. Ordover Is a New York Area stand up comic, and is the American founder and chief executive officer of JJO Marketing, a digital art gallery owner, and is best known for being an editor at Pocket Books from 1992 to 2003 overseeing the Star Trek franchise licensed novels, and from 2003 to 2005 Editor In Chief of Phobos Books. In 2018 he released Lie There and Lose Weight: How I Lost 100 Pounds by Doing Next to Nothing, a weight loss memoir, from Wilder Publications, Since losing weight Ordover has added acting to his creative list, including appearances on 2018–2019 season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Madam Secretary, Law & Order: SVU, New Amsterdam, Manifest and Instinct

Ordover is the co creator of such spin off series as Star Trek: New Frontier (with writer Peter David), Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers and Star Trek: I. K. S. Gorkon (both with Keith R. A. DeCandido), Star Trek: Stargazer (with Michael Jan Friedman), and Star Trek: Challenger (with Diane Carey). According to Peter David, the basic concept for New Frontier was Ordover's, as was the notion of using several already existing characters, with David having fleshed out the concept and created the original characters.

Ordover and David Mack wrote the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes "Starship Down". Both have story credits on "It's Only a Paper Moon", which was written as a teleplay by Ronald D. Moore.

Ordover edited BACONTHOLOGY: The Sweet and Savory Science Fiction Anthology featuring "baconized" stories by bestselling award winning authors donating work supporting Ordover's charity work.

Ordover produces bacon themed charity events benefiting autistic children at his gallery.

Bacon Palooza was held October 15–17, 2010. BACONTHOLOGY: The Sweet and Savory Science Fiction Anthology was the official event program book. On July 11, 2007, Ordover launched a nude dinner cruise from Sheepshead Bay, New York. Ordover created a web site in September 2007 as a hoax to bring attention to the discrepancy between age of consent laws and marriage law.

Identity Crisis (2005). Part of the Starfleet Corps of Engineers series.