David Gerrold is an award-winning writer whose first professional sale was the classic Star Trek episode "The Trouble with Tribbles". In addition to his Trek screenwriting and prose fiction work, he also wrote two non-fiction books: The World of Star Trek, and The Making of The Trouble With Tribbles.
Gerrold performed the voice of M3 Green in TAS episode: "The Jihad" and was the model for Ensign Hacker in TAS episode & Log Four novelization: More Tribbles, More Troubles. He played two different Enterprise crewmembers in Star Trek: The Motion Picture and the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Trials and Tribble-ations". Gerrold also wrote the foreword of the novelization of that episode.
As Gerry Auberson (left) in 2273.
He wrote an introduction for Stephen Goldin in TOS novel: Trek to Madworld and another for Kathleen Sky in TOS novel: Vulcan!. He later wrote the introduction of the Constellations anthology.
His book "The Martian Child" was largely auto-biographical and adapted for the screen in 2007.
Appearances[]
- M3 Green (TAS episode: "The Jihad")
- Hacker (TAS episode: "More Tribbles, More Troubles")
- Gerry Auberson (TOS movie: The Motion Picture)
- Security officer (DS9 episode: "Trials and Tribble-ations")
Star Trek bibliography[]
Fiction[]
Encounter at Farpoint.
- TOS episode: "The Trouble with Tribbles" (1967)
- TAS episode: "More Tribbles, More Troubles" (1973)
- TAS episode: "Bem" (1974)
- TOS novel: The Galactic Whirlpool (1980)
- TNG novelization: Encounter at Farpoint (1987)
- TOS - Star Trek: The Manga - Uchu comic: "Bandi" (2008)
- TOS - Star Trek: The Manga - Boukenshin comic: "Changeling" (2009)
Non-fiction[]
- ST reference: The World of Star Trek (Ballantine Books, 1973; Comicmix, 2016)
- ST reference: The Trouble with Tribbles (Ballantine, 1973; Comicmix, 2016)
- TOS novel: Vulcan! (Introduction, 1978)
- TOS novel: Trek to Madworld (Introduction, 1979)
- DS9 novelization: Trials and Tribble-ations (Introduction, 1996)
- Constellations anthology (Introduction, 2006)
- Star Trek: The Manga - Ultimate Edition (Foreword, 2009)
- ST reference: New Life and New Civilizations: Exploring Star Trek Comics (Foreword, 2014)
- ST reference: These Are The Voyages, TOS Season Three (Foreword, 2014)
Appendices[]
External links[]
- David Gerrold article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- David Gerrold article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.