(written from a Production point of view)
Erika Lippoldt is a writer and producer.
Lippoldt worked on the first season of Star Trek: Discovery as an executive story editor, and the second season as co-producer. She and her writing partner, Bo Yeon Kim, wrote the episodes "Into the Forest I Go", "The Sound of Thunder", and "Through the Valley of Shadows" together. The two also collaborated on the Star Trek: Short Treks episode "The Brightest Star".
In January 2019, it was announced that a Discovery spinoff series was being developed which would star Michelle Yeoh, for which Kim and Lippoldt would be co-executive producers and showrunners.
Prior to Discovery, she (alongside Kim) was a story editor on the television series Reign between 2015 and 2017, for which she also wrote two episodes.
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