List of Star Trek: The Original Series writers

This is a list of writers for the original Star Trek television series sorted by the amount of episodes written. Collaborations are marked with dashes. (-) Contributions, pseudonyms and episode numbers are noted in parenthesis.

13 episodes

 * Gene L. Coon
 * "Arena" (S01E18) (Teleplay)
 * "Space Seed" (S01E22) (Teleplay - with Carey Wilber)
 * "A Taste of Armageddon" (S01E23) (Teleplay - with Robert Hamner)
 * "The Devil in the Dark" (S01E25)
 * "Errand of Mercy" (S01E26)
 * "The Apple" (S02E05) (Teleplay - with Max Ehrlich)
 * "Metamorphosis" (S02E09)
 * "A Piece of the Action" (S02E17) (Teleplay - with David P. Harmon)
 * "Bread and Circuses" (S02E25) - with Gene Roddenberry
 * "Spock's Brain" (S03E01) (as Lee Cronin)
 * "Spectre of the Gun" (S03E06) (as Lee Cronin)
 * "Wink of an Eye" (S03E11) (Story, as Lee Cronin)
 * "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" (S03E15) (Story, as Lee Cronin)

12 episodes

 * Gene Roddenberry
 * "The Cage"
 * "Charlie X" (S01E02) (Story)
 * "Mudd's Women" (S01E06) (Story)
 * "The Menagerie, Part I" (S01E11)
 * "The Menagerie, Part II" (S01E12)
 * "The Return of the Archons" (S01E21) (Story)
 * "A Private Little War" (S02E19) (Teleplay)
 * "The Omega Glory" (S02E23)
 * "Bread and Circuses" (S02E25) - with Gene L. Coon
 * "Assignment: Earth" (S02E26) (Story - with Art Wallace)
 * "The Savage Curtain" (S03E22) (Teleplay - with Arthur Heinemann) / (Story)
 * "Turnabout Intruder" (S03E24) (Story)

10 episodes

 * D. C. Fontana
 * "Charlie X" (S01E02) (Teleplay)
 * "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" (S01E19)
 * "This Side of Paradise" (S01E24) (Teleplay) / (Story - with Jerry Sohl)
 * "Journey to Babel" (S02E10)
 * "Friday's Child" (S02E11)
 * "By Any Other Name" (S02E22) (Teleplay - with Jerome Bixby)
 * "The Ultimate Computer" (S02E24) (Teleplay)
 * "The Enterprise Incident" (S03E02)
 * "That Which Survives" (S03E17) (Story, as Michael Richards)
 * "The Way to Eden" (S03E20) (Story, as Michael Richards - with Arthur Heinemann)

4 episodes

 * John Meredyth Lucas
 * "The Changeling" (S02E03)
 * "Patterns of Force" (S02E21)
 * "Elaan of Troyius" (S03E13)
 * "That Which Survives" (S03E17) (Teleplay)


 * Jerome Bixby
 * "Mirror, Mirror" (S02E04)
 * "By Any Other Name" (S02E22) (Teleplay - with D. C. Fontana) / (Story)
 * "Day of the Dove" (S03E07)
 * "Requiem for Methuselah" (S03E19)

3 episodes

 * Robert Bloch
 * "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" (S01E07)
 * "Catspaw" (S02E07)
 * "Wolf in the Fold" (S02E14)


 * Jerry Sohl
 * "The Corbomite Maneuver" (S01E10)
 * "This Side of Paradise" (S01E24) (Story, as Nathan Butler - with D. C. Fontana)
 * "Whom Gods Destroy" (S03E14) (Story - with Lee Erwin)


 * Oliver Crawford
 * "The Galileo Seven" (S01E16) (Teleplay - with S. Bar-David) / (Story)
 * "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" (S03E15) (Teleplay)
 * "The Cloud Minders" (S03E21) (Story - with David Gerrold)


 * Margaret Armen
 * "The Gamesters of Triskelion" (S02E16)
 * "The Paradise Syndrome" (S03E03)
 * "The Cloud Minders" (S03E21) (Teleplay)


 * Arthur Heinemann
 * "Wink of an Eye" (S03E11) (Teleplay)
 * "The Way to Eden" (S03E20) (Teleplay) / (Story - with D. C. Fontana)
 * "The Savage Curtain" (S03E22) (Teleplay - with Gene Roddenberry)

2 episodes

 * Stephen Kandel
 * "Mudd's Women" (S01E06) (Teleplay)
 * "I, Mudd" (S02E08)


 * S. Bar-David
 * "Dagger of the Mind" (S01E09)
 * "The Galileo Seven" (S01E16) (Teleplay - with Oliver Crawford)


 * Paul Schneider
 * "Balance of Terror" (S01E14)
 * "The Squire of Gothos" (S01E17)


 * Theodore Sturgeon
 * "Shore Leave" (S01E15)
 * "Amok Time" (S02E01)


 * Steven W. Carabatsos
 * "Court Martial" (S01E20) (Teleplay - with Don M. Mankiewicz)
 * "Operation: Annihilate!" (S01E29)


 * David P. Harmon
 * "The Deadly Years" (S02E12)
 * "A Piece of the Action" (S02E17) (Teleplay - with Gene L. Coon) / (Story)


 * Art Wallace
 * "Obsession" (S02E13)
 * "Assignment: Earth" (S02E26) (Teleplay) / (Story - with Gene Roddenberry)


 * David Gerrold
 * "The Trouble with Tribbles" (S02E15)
 * "The Cloud Minders" (S03E21) (Story - with Oliver Crawford)


 * Jean Lisette Aroeste
 * "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" (S03E05)
 * "All Our Yesterdays" (S03E23)

1 episode

 * George Clayton Johnson - "The Man Trap" (S01E01)
 * Samuel A. Peeples - "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (S01E03)
 * John D. F. Black - "The Naked Time" (S01E04)
 * Richard Matheson - "The Enemy Within" (S01E05)
 * Adrian Spies - "Miri" (S01E08)
 * Barry Trivers - "The Conscience of the King" (S01E13)
 * Fredric Brown - "Arena" (S01E18) (Story)
 * Don M. Mankiewicz - "Court Martial" (S01E20) (Teleplay - with Steven W. Carabatsos) / (Story)
 * Boris Sobelman - "The Return of the Archons" (S01E21) (Teleplay)
 * Carey Wilber - "Space Seed" (S01E22) (Teleplay - with Gene L. Coon) / (Story)
 * Robert Hamner - "A Taste of Armageddon" (S01E23) (Teleplay - with Gene L. Coon) / (Story)
 * Don Ingalls - "The Alternative Factor" (S01E27)
 * Harlan Ellison - "The City on the Edge of Forever" (S01E28)
 * Gilbert Ralston - "Who Mourns for Adonais?" (S02E02)
 * Max Ehrlich - "The Apple" (S02E05) (Teleplay - with Gene L. Coon( / (Story)
 * Norman Spinrad - "The Doomsday Machine" (S02E06)
 * Robert Sabaroff - "The Immunity Syndrome" (S02E18)
 * Jud Crucis - "A Private Little War" (S02E19) (Story)
 * John Kingsbridge - "Return to Tomorrow" (S02E20)
 * Laurence N. Wolfe - "The Ultimate Computer" (S02E24) (Story)
 * Edward J. Lakso - "And the Children Shall Lead" (S03E04)
 * Rik Vollaerts - "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" (S03E08)
 * Judy Burns & Chet Richards - "The Tholian Web" (S03E09)
 * Meyer Dolinsky - "Plato's Stepchildren" (S03E10)
 * Joyce Muskat - "The Empath" (S03E12)
 * Lee Erwin - "Whom Gods Destroy" (S03E14) (Teleplay) / (Story - with Jerry Sohl)
 * George F. Slavin & Stanley Adams - "The Mark of Gideon" (S03E16)
 * Jeremy Tarcher & Shari Lewis - "The Lights of Zetar" (S03E18)
 * Arthur Singer - "Turnabout Intruder" (S03E24) (Teleplay)