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

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from 1992 to 2003 overseeing the ''

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'' franchise licensed

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s, 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

Literary work

Star Trek: New Frontier

Ordover is the co-creator of such spin-off series as '' Star Trek: New Frontier'' (with writer

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), '' Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers'' and '' Star Trek: I.K.S. Gorkon'' (both with Keith R.A. DeCandido), '' Star Trek: Stargazer'' (with

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), and '' Star Trek: Challenger'' (with

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). 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.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Ordover and David Mack wrote the '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' episodes " Starship Down". Both have story credits on "

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", which was written as a teleplay by Ronald D. Moore.

Baconthology

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.

Charity work

Ordover produces

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themed charity events benefiting

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children at his gallery.

Bacon-Palooza

Bacon-Palooza was held October 15–17, 2010.

Bacon-Palooza II

Bacon-Palooza II was held March 1–3, 2013. ''BACONTHOLOGY: The Sweet and Savory Science Fiction Anthology'' was the official event program book.

Personal life

Ordover is also an active

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, the founder of Clothing Optional Dinners, a dining club in

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for nudists. 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

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laws and

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law.

Novellas

*''Identity Crisis'' (2005). Part of the ''

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'' series.

References

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