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)