Alan B. McElroy (born October 1960; age 64) is an American screenwriter who worked as a producer on the second, supervising producer on the third, and co-executive producer on the fourth and fifth seasons of Star Trek: Discovery, while also writing five episodes of the series. After the series ended, he joined the writing staff of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds for that show's third season.
McElroy began his career with Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988, featuring Michael Pataki, George Wilbur, and Tom Morga, with music by Alan Howarth). He later worked again with Halloween 4 director Dwight H. Little on Rapid Fire (1992, with Jeff McCarthy). Subsequently, his film credits include Spawn (1997, with Melinda Clarke, and cinematography by Guillermo Navarro), Layover (2001, with Gregg Henry and Tom Wright), Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002, also with Henry, and with music by Don Davis), Wrong Turn (2003), The Marine (2006), Three (2006), and then teaming up again with Little for Tekken (2010, with Cary-Hiroyuki).
In the 2010s McElroy began writing primarily for television, working as a writer and executive story editor on The Vampire Diaries, and as a writer and producer on Sacred Lies and The Night Shift.
Writing credits
- DIS:
- "An Obol for Charon" (with Andrew Colville)
- "Perpetual Infinity" (with Brandon Schultz)
- "Forget Me Not" (with Chris Silvestri and Anthony Maranville)
- "All Is Possible" (with Eric J. Robbins)
- "Under the Twin Moons"