Stephen Edward Poe (1937 – January 6, 2000 of leukemia) was a successful author. He occasionally wrote under the name "Stephen E. Whitfield", his stepfather's surname.
In 1968, under the name "Stephen E. Whitfield", he published The Making of Star Trek, a book he wrote with Gene Roddenberry. For the longest time, this was the only book on the production of Star Trek.
Thirty years later, he published his second Star Trek book, A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager
He worked with Alcoholics Anonymous, compiling "A Concordance to Alcoholics Anonymous" (published in 1990) with his wife Francis.