Meyer Dolinsky

Meyer Dolinsky wrote the  episode. Among his other television credits are three episodes of the original Outer Limits: "The Architects of Fear", directed by Byron Haskin, "O.B.I.T.", directed by Gerd Oswald and featuring Jeff Corey, Harry Townes, and Jason Wingreen, and "ZZZZZ".

Dolinsky was invited by Gene Roddenberry to pitch stories to Star Trek as early as the Spring of, when he was invited for a screening on the series' second pilot, along with other potential writers. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, p. 147)

He also wrote non-Trek work under the name "Mike Dolinsky".