List of Star Trek: The Original Series writers
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The following is a list of writers who worked on episodes of the original Star Trek
television series.
When a writer collaborated with another writer or only received a partial writing credit for the episode, it is noted after the dash. Use of a pen name for a particular episode is also noted after the dash.
Star Trek: The Original Series
Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry, produced by Desilu Productions . Star Trek was telecast on NBC from September 8, 1966, through June 3, 1969...
television series.
When a writer collaborated with another writer or only received a partial writing credit for the episode, it is noted after the dash. Use of a pen name for a particular episode is also noted after the dash.
Writers
| Writer | # | Prod. # | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stanley Adams Stanley Adams (actor) Stanley Adams was an American actor and screenwriter.-Career:Born in New York City, Adams had his first film role in 1952, when he played the bartender in the movie version of Death of a Salesman... |
1 | 72 | "The Mark of Gideon" – with George F. Slavin |
| Margaret Armen | 3 | 46 | "The Gamesters of Triskelion" |
| 58 | "The Paradise Syndrome" | ||
| 74 | "The Cloud Minders" – teleplay | ||
| Jean Lisette Aroeste Jean Lisette Aroeste Jean Lisette Aroeste was a U.C.L.A. librarian and Star Trek fan who became one of only four writers with no prior television writing credits to sell scripts to the program.Her first sale, "Is There in Truth No Beauty?", was an unsolicited script which Star Trek co-producer Robert H... |
2 | 62 | "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" |
| 78 | "All Our Yesterdays" | ||
| Jerome Bixby Jerome Bixby Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby was an American short story writer, editor and scriptwriter, best known for his work in science fiction. He also wrote many westerns and used the pseudonyms D. B. Lewis, Harry Neal, Albert Russell, J. Russell, M. St... |
4 | 39 | "Mirror, Mirror" |
| 50 | "By Any Other Name" – with D.C. Fontana | ||
| 66 | "Day of the Dove" | ||
| 76 | "Requiem for Methuselah" | ||
| John D.F. Black | 1 | 7 | "The Naked Time" |
| Robert Bloch Robert Bloch Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock... |
3 | 10 | "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" |
| 30 | "Catspaw" | ||
| 36 | "Wolf in the Fold" | ||
| Fredric Brown Fredric Brown Fredric Brown was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was born in Cincinnati.He had two sons: James Ross Brown and Linn Lewis Brown .... |
1 | 19 | "Arena" – story |
| Judy Burns | 1 | 64 | "The Tholian Web" – with Chet Richards |
| Steven W. Carabatsos | 2 | 15 | "Court Martial" – with Don M. Mankiewicz |
| 29 | "Operation: Annihilate" | ||
| Gene L. Coon Gene L. Coon Gene L. Coon was an American screenwriter and television producer. He is best remembered for his work on the original Star Trek series.-Life and career:... |
12 | 19 | "Arena" – teleplay |
| 23 | "A Taste of Armageddon" – with Robert Hamner | ||
| 24 | "Space Seed" – with Carey Wilbur | ||
| 26 | "The Devil in the Dark" | ||
| 27 | "Errand of Mercy" | ||
| 31 | "Metamorphosis" | ||
| 43 | "Bread and Circuses" – teleplay with Gene Roddenberry | ||
| 49 | "A Piece of the Action" – with David P. Harmon | ||
| 56 | "Spectre of the Gun" – as Lee Cronin | ||
| 61 | "Spock's Brain" – as Lee Cronin | ||
| 68 | "Wink of an Eye" – story as Lee Cronin | ||
| 70 | "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" – story as Lee Cronin | ||
| Oliver Crawford Oliver Crawford Oliver Crawford was an American screenwriter and author who overcame the Hollywood blacklist during the McCarthy Era of the 1950s to become one of the entertainment industry's most successful television writers... |
3 | 14 | "The Galileo Seven" – with Shimon Wincelberg |
| 70 | "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" – teleplay | ||
| 74 | "The Cloud Minders" – story with David Gerrold | ||
| Meyer Dolinsky Meyer Dolinsky Meyer Dolinsky , aka Mike Dolinsky , was an American screenwriter.-Writing filmography :... |
1 | 67 | "Plato's Stepchildren" |
| Max Ehrlich | 1 | 38 | "The Apple" |
| Harlan Ellison Harlan Ellison Harlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media... |
1 | 28 | "The City on the Edge of Forever" |
| Lee Erwin Lee Erwin Lee Erwin was a television writer from the 1950s to the 1970s. Erwin wrote for Mr. & Mrs. North, The Millionaire, Have Gun, Will Travel, The New Adventures of Charlie Chan and many other 1950s and 1960s TV shows... |
1 | 71 | "Whom Gods Destroy" – with Jerry Sohl |
| D.C. Fontana | 10 | 8 | "Charlie X" – teleplay |
| 21 | "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" | ||
| 25 | " This Side of Paradise" – with Jerry Sohl | ||
| 32 | "Friday's Child" | ||
| 44 | "Journey to Babel" | ||
| 50 | "By Any Other Name" – with Jerome Bixby | ||
| 53 | "The Ultimate Computer" – teleplay | ||
| 59 | "The Enterprise Incident" | ||
| 69 | "That Which Survives" – story as Michael Richards | ||
| 75 | "The Way to Eden" – with Arthur Heinemann; as Michael Richards | ||
| David Gerrold David Gerrold Jerrold David Friedman , better known by his pen name David Gerrold, is an American science fiction author who started his career in 1966 while a college student by submitting an unsolicited story outline for the television series Star Trek. He was invited to submit several premises, and the one... |
2 | 42 | "The Trouble With Tribbles" |
| 74 | "The Cloud Minders" – story with Oliver Crawford | ||
| Robert Hamner | 1 | 23 | "A Taste of Armageddon" – with Gene Coon |
| David P. Harmon | 2 | 40 | "The Deadly Years" |
| 49 | "A Piece of the Action" – with Gene Coon | ||
| Arthur Heinemann | 3 | 68 | "Wink of an Eye" – teleplay |
| 75 | "The Way to Eden" – with D.C. Fontana | ||
| 77 | "The Savage Curtain" – with Gene Roddenberry | ||
| Don Ingalls | 2 | 20 | "The Alternative Factor" |
| 45 | "A Private Little War" – story as Jud Crucis | ||
| George Clayton Johnson George Clayton Johnson George Clayton Johnson is an American science fiction writer most famous for co-writing the novel Logan's Run with William F. Nolan... |
1 | 6 | "The Man Trap" |
| Stephen Kandel | 2 | 4 | "Mudd's Women" – teleplay |
| 41 | "I, Mudd" | ||
| John Kingsbridge | 1 | 51 | "Return to Tomorrow" |
| John Kneubuhl John Kneubuhl John Kneubuhl was an American Samoan screenwriter, playwright and Polynesian historian. He wrote for American television series such as The Fugitive, Gunsmoke, The Wild Wild West, Star Trek, The Invaders and Hawaii Five-O... |
1 | 43 | "Bread and Circuses" – story |
| Edward J. Lasko | 1 | 60 | "And the Children Shall Lead" |
| Shari Lewis Shari Lewis Shari Lewis was an American ventriloquist, puppeteer, and children's television show host, most popular during the 1960s and 1990s... |
1 | 73 | "The Lights of Zetar" – with Jeremy Tarcher |
| John Meredyth Lucas John Meredyth Lucas John Meredyth Lucas was an American writer, primarily for television.He was the son of screenwriter Bess Meredyth and writer/director Wilfred Lucas, and the adopted son of director Michael Curtiz.-Career:... |
4 | 37 | "The Changeling" |
| 52 | "Patterns of Force" | ||
| 57 | "Elaan of Troyius" | ||
| 69 | "That Which Survives" – teleplay | ||
| Don M. Mankiewicz Don Mankiewicz Don Mankiewicz is a screenwriter.Born in Berlin, Germany, he is the son of Herman J. Mankiewicz. He was nominated for the 1958 Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for I Want to Live! Among his many television credits are Ironside, for which he wrote the pilot, the original Star Trek and... |
1 | 15 | "Court Martial" – with Steven W. Carabatsos |
| Richard Matheson Richard Matheson Richard Burton Matheson is an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He is perhaps best known as the author of What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return, A Stir of Echoes, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and I Am Legend, all of which have been... |
1 | 5 | "The Enemy Within" |
| Joyce Muskat Joyce Muskat Joyce Muskat was one of only four writers with no prior television credits able to sell a script to Star Trek . Star Trek co-producer Robert H. Justman read her unsolicited script, "The Empath", and recommended it be bought.It was produced during the third and final season, and was her only sale to... |
1 | 63 | "The Empath" |
| Samuel A. Peeples Samuel A. Peeples Samuel Anthony Peeples was an American writer. He published several novels in the Western genre, often under the pen name Brad Ward, before moving into series television after being given a script assignment by Frank Gruber... |
1 | 2 | "Where No Man Has Gone Before Where No Man Has Gone Before "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is the second pilot episode of the television series Star Trek: The Original Series. It was produced in 1965 after the first pilot, "The Cage", had been rejected by NBC. The episode was eventually broadcast third in sequence on September 22, 1966, and was re-aired on... " |
| Gilbert Ralston Gilbert Ralston Gilbert Alexander Ralston was an American screenwriter, journalist and author. He was a television producer in the 1950s and a screenwriter in the 1960s... |
1 | 33 | "Who Mourns for Adonais?" |
| Chet Richards | 1 | 64 | "The Tholian Web" – with Judy Burns |
| Gene Roddenberry Gene Roddenberry Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry was an American television screenwriter, producer and futurist, best known for creating the American science fiction series Star Trek. Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, California where his father worked as a police officer... |
11 | 1 | "The Cage" |
| 4 | "Mudd's Women" – story | ||
| 8 | "Charlie X" – story | ||
| 16 | "The Menagerie" | ||
| 22 | "The Return of the Archons" – story | ||
| 43 | "Bread and Circuses" – teleplay | ||
| 45 | "A Private Little War" – teleplay | ||
| 54 | "The Omega Glory" | ||
| 55 | "Assignment: Earth" – with Art Wallace | ||
| 77 | "The Savage Curtain" – with Arthur Heinemann | ||
| 79 | "Turnabout Intruder" – story | ||
| Robert Sabaroff | 1 | 48 | "The Immunity Syndrome" |
| Paul Schneider Paul Schneider (writer) Paul Schneider was a screenwriter who wrote two episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series: "Balance of Terror" and "The Squire of Gothos". He also wrote the episode "The Terratin Incident" for Star Trek: The Animated Series.... |
2 | 9 | "Balance of Terror Balance of terror The phrase "balance of terror" is usually used in reference to the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.... " |
| 18 | "The Squire of Gothos" | ||
| Arthur H. Singer | 1 | 79 | "Turnabout Intruder" – teleplay |
| George F. Slavin | 1 | 72 | "The Mark of Gideon" – with Stanley Adams |
| Boris Sobelman | 1 | 22 | "The Return of the Archons" – teleplay |
| Jerry Sohl Jerry Sohl Gerald Allan Sohl Sr. was an American scriptwriter for The Twilight Zone , Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Outer Limits, Star Trek and other shows... |
3 | 3 | "The Corbomite Maneuver" |
| 25 | "This Side of Paradise This Side of Paradise This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University... " – with D.C. Fontana; as Nathan Butler |
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| 71 | "Whom Gods Destroy" – with Lee Erwin | ||
| Adrian Spies Adrian Spies Adrian Spies was a screenwriter, active from the 1940s through to the 1980s.He won an Edgar Award for an episode of Studio One in Hollywood and was nominated for an Emmy Award for an episode of Dr. Kildare.... |
1 | 12 | "Miri" |
| Norman Spinrad Norman Spinrad Norman Richard Spinrad is an American science fiction author.Born in New York City, Spinrad is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. In 1957 he entered City College of New York and graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Science degree as a pre-law major. In 1966 he moved to San Francisco,... |
1 | 35 | "The Doomsday Machine" |
| Theodore Sturgeon Theodore Sturgeon Theodore Sturgeon was an American science fiction author.His most famous novel is More Than Human .-Biography:... |
2 | 17 | "Shore Leave" |
| 34 | "Amok Time" | ||
| Jeremy Tarcher | 1 | 73 | "The Lights of Zetar" – with Shari Lewis |
| Barry Trivers | 1 | 13 | "The Conscience of the King The Conscience of the King "The Conscience of the King" is an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. It is episode #13, production #13, and aired on December 8, 1966... " |
| Rick Vollaerts | 1 | 65 | "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" |
| Art Wallace Art Wallace Art Wallace was an American television writer best known for his work on the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. He began work in television in the 1940s, on the anthology series Studio One and Kraft Television Theater. Over the years, Wallace wrote for Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, Combat!, Star Trek, and... |
2 | 47 | "Obsession" |
| 55 | "Assignment: Earth" – with Gene Roddenberry | ||
| Carey Wilbur | 1 | 24 | "Space Seed" – with Gene Coon |
| Shimon Wincelberg Shimon Wincelberg Shimon Wincelberg was an American television writer and Broadway playwright.Born in Kiel, Germany, he wrote for many 1960s and 1970s television shows including Naked City, Mannix, Police Woman, Star Trek , Gunsmoke, Have Gun — Will Travel, The Paper Chase and Lost in Space... |
2 | 11 | "Dagger of the Mind" |
| 14 | "The Galileo Seven" – with Oliver Crawford; as S. Bar-David | ||
| Laurence N. Wolfe | 1 | 53 | "The Ultimate Computer" – story |