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.

[edit] Writers

Writer	#	Prod. #	Episode
Stanley Adams	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	2	62	"Is There in Truth No Beauty?"
		78	"All Our Yesterdays"
Jerome Bixby	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	3	10	"What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
		30	"Catspaw"
		36	"Wolf in the Fold"
Fredric 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 Coon	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	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	1	67	"Plato's Stepchildren"
Max Ehrlich	1	38	"The Apple"
Harlan Ellison	1	28	"The City on the Edge of Forever"
Lee Erwin	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 (TOS episode)" – 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	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	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	1	43	"Bread and Circuses" – story
Edward J. Lasko	1	60	"And the Children Shall Lead"
Shari Lewis	1	73	"The Lights of Zetar" – with Jeremy Tarcher
John Meredyth Lucas	4	37	"The Changeling"
		52	"Patterns of Force"
		57	"Elaan of Troyius"
		69	"That Which Survives" – teleplay
Don M. Mankiewicz	1	15	"Court Martial" – with Steven W. Carabatsos
Richard Matheson	1	5	"The Enemy Within"
Joyce Muskat	1	63	"The Empath"
Samuel A. Peeples	1	2	"Where No Man Has Gone Before"
Gilbert Ralston	1	33	"Who Mourns for Adonais?"
Chet Richards	1	64	"The Tholian Web" – with Judy Burns
Gene Roddenberry	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	2	9	"Balance of Terror"
		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	3	3	"The Corbomite Maneuver"
		25	"This Side of Paradise" – with D.C. Fontana; as Nathan Butler
		71	"Whom Gods Destroy" – with Lee Erwin
Adrian Spies	1	12	"Miri"
Norman Spinrad	1	35	"The Doomsday Machine"
Theodore Sturgeon	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"
Rick Vollaerts	1	65	"For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky"
Art Wallace	2	47	"Obsession"
		55	"Assignment: Earth" – with Gene Roddenberry
Carey Wilbur	1	24	"Space Seed" – with Gene Coon
Shimon Wincelberg	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