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'Star Trek' Screenwriter David Gerrold Headlines 'Star Trek First Fridays'
Gerrold, who wrote 'The Trouble With Tribbles,' will discuss the show and the 'Star Trek' phenomenon tonight at the St. Louis Science Center.
Most people think about the future while in college, but David Gerrold took it several steps further by envisioning the future and writing about it. While enrolled in a college screenwriting class in 1966, he contacted a new TV show called Star Trek and submitted several story ideas. One of them was “The Trouble With Tribbles,” which became one of the show’s most popular episodes ever and launched Gerrold’s career as a writer. “It was a career choice that grabbed me, rather than the other way around,” Gerrold said. Gerrold, who will appear at the St. Louis Science Center Friday as part of “Star Trek First Fridays,” has written over 50 science fiction books. Among his works are “The Man Who Folded Himself,” “The War Against the Chtorr” …
