Nick Farmer is an American science fiction writer and linguist based in Oakland, California, United States.
[1] He has created 3 constructed languages for science fiction television series: Belter Creole for The Expanse, and Trill and Barzan for Star Trek: Discovery.
As a child, he moved a couple of times, getting to grow up with a few different languages and dialects in his surroundings, eventually making him interested in linguistics.
[2][3][4] Inside the universe of the television series set around 200 years in the future,[5] the language is used by Belters, the inhabitants of the asteroid belt and outer planets of the Solar System.
[3][5][1] As the result of his work, Farmer created over 1000 words for his language, adding more to the list if requested by the show's producers and fans.