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 sorted by the number of episodes they wrote.

Contributions are noted in parenthesis. Collaborations are noted by dashes. Use of a pen name for a particular episode is noted below.

Gene L. Coon

  1. "Arena" (Teleplay)
  2. "Space Seed" (Teleplay — with Carey Wilber)
  3. "A Taste of Armageddon" (Teleplay — with Robert Hammer)
  4. "The Devil in the Dark"
  5. "Errand of Mercy"
  6. "The Apple" (Teleplay — with Max Ehrlich)
  7. "Metamorphosis"
  8. "A Piece of the Action" (Teleplay — with David P. Harmon)
  9. "Bread and Circuses" — with Gene Roddenberry
  10. "Spock's Brain"1
  11. "Spectre of the Gun"1
  12. "Wink of an Eye" (Story)1
  13. "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" (Story)1

Gene Roddenberry

  1. "The Cage"
  2. "Charlie X" (Story)
  3. "Mudd's Women" (Story)
  4. "The Menagerie, Part I"
  5. "The Menagerie, Part II"
  6. "The Return of the Archons" (Story)
  7. "A Private Little War" (Teleplay)
  8. "The Omega Glory"
  9. "Bread and Circuses" — with Gene L. Coon
  10. "Assignment: Earth" (Story — with Art Wallace)
  11. "The Savage Curtain" (Teleplay — with Arthur Heinemann / Story)
  12. "Turnabout Intruder" (Story)

D. C. Fontana

  1. "Charlie X" (Teleplay)
  2. "Tomorrow Is Yesterday"
  3. "This Side of Paradise" (Teleplay / Story — with Jerry Sohl)2
  4. "Journey to Babel"
  5. "Friday's Child"
  6. "By Any Other Name" (Teleplay — with Jerome Bixby)
  7. "The Ultimate Computer" (Teleplay)
  8. "The Enterprise Incident"
  9. "That Which Survives" (Story)3
  10. "The Way to Eden" (Story — with Arthur Heinemann)3

John Meredyth Lucas

  1. "The Changeling"
  2. "Patterns of Force"
  3. "Elaan of Troyius"
  4. "That Which Survives" (Teleplay)

Jerome Bixby

  1. "Mirror, Mirror"
  2. "By Any Other Name" (Teleplay — with D. C. Fontana / Story)
  3. "Day of the Dove"
  4. "Requiem for Methuselah"

Jerry Sohl

  1. "The Corbomite Maneuver"
  2. "This Side of Paradise" (Story — with D. C. Fontana)2
  3. "Whom Gods Destroy" (Story — with Lee Erwin)

Robert Bloch

  1. "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
  2. "Catspaw"
  3. "Wolf in the Fold"

Oliver Crawford

  1. "The Galileo Seven" (Teleplay — with S. Bar-David / Story)
  2. "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" (Teleplay)
  3. "The Cloud Minders" (Story — with David Gerrold)

Margaret Armen

  1. "The Gamesters of Triskelion"
  2. "The Paradise Syndrome"
  3. "The Cloud Minders" (Teleplay)

Arthur Heinemann

  1. "Wink of an Eye" (Teleplay)
  2. "The Way to Eden" (Teleplay / Story — with D. C. Fontana)3
  3. "The Savage Curtain" (Teleplay — with Gene Roddenberry)

Stephen Kandel

  1. "Mudd's Women" (Teleplay)
  2. "I, Mudd"

S. Bar-David

  1. "Dagger of the Mind"
  2. "The Galileo Seven" (Teleplay — with Oliver Crawford)

Paul Schneider

  1. "Balance of Terror"
  2. "The Squire of Gothos"

Theodore Sturgeon

  1. "Shore Leave"
  2. "Amok Time"

Steven W. Carabatsos

  1. "Court Martial" (Teleplay — with Don M. Mankiewicz)
  2. "Operation: Annihilate!"

Don Ingalls

  1. "The Alternative Factor"
  2. "A Private Little War" (Story)4

David P. Harmon

  1. "The Deadly Years"
  2. "A Piece of the Action" (Teleplay — with Gene L. Coon / Story)

Art Wallace

  1. "Obsession"
  2. "Assignment: Earth" (Teleplay / Story — with Gene Roddenberry)

David Gerrold

  1. "The Trouble With Tribbles"
  2. "The Cloud Minders" (Story — with Oliver Crawford)

Jean Lisette Aroeste

  1. "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"
  2. "All Our Yesterdays"

George Clayton Johnson

  1. "The Man Trap"

Samuel A. Peeples

  1. "Where No Man Has Gone Before"

John D. F. Black

  1. "The Naked Time"

Richard Matheson

  1. "The Enemy Within"

Adrian Spies

  1. "Miri"

Barry Trivers

  1. "The Conscience of the King"

Fredric Brown

  1. "Arena" (Story)

Don M. Mankiewicz

  1. "Court Martial" (Teleplay — with Steven W. Carabatsos / Story)

Boris Sobelman

  1. "The Return of the Archons" (Teleplay)

Carey Wilber

  1. "Space Seed" (Teleplay — with Gene L. Coon / Story)

Robert Hamner

  1. "A Taste of Armageddon" (Teleplay — with Gene L. Coon / Story)

Harlan Ellison

  1. "The City on the Edge of Forever"

Gilbert Ralston

  1. "Who Mourns for Adonais?"

Max Simon Ehrlich

  1. "The Apple" (Teleplay — with Gene L. Coon / Story)

Norman Spinrad

  1. "The Doomsday Machine"

Robert Sabaroff

  1. "The Immunity Syndrome"

John Kingsbridge

  1. "Return to Tomorrow"

Laurence N. Wolfe

  1. "The Ultimate Computer" (Story)

Rik Vollaerts

  1. "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky"

Judy Burns & Chet Richards

  1. "The Tholian Web"

Meyer Dolinsky

  1. "Plato's Stepchildren"

Edward J. Lakso

  1. "And the Children Shall Lead"

Joyce Muskat

  1. "The Empath"

Lee Erwin

  1. "Whom Gods Destroy" (Teleplay / Story — with Jerry Sohl)

George F. Slavin & Stanley Adams

  1. "The Mark of Gideon"

Jeremy Tarcher & Shari Lewis

  1. "The Lights of Zetar"

Arthur Singer

  1. "Turnabout Intruder" (Teleplay)

Footnotes

  1. ^ Gene L. Coon used the pen name "Lee Cronin" for the episodes "Spock's Brain", "Spectre of the Gun", "Wink of an Eye" and "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield".
  2. ^ Jerry Sohl used the pen name "Nathan Butler" for the episode "This Side of Paradise".
  3. ^ D. C. Fontana used the pen name "Michael Richards" for the episodes "That Which Survives" and "The Way to Eden".
  4. ^ Don Ingalls used the pen name "Jud Crucis" for the episode "A Private Little War".
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