One of the three lithium miners working the storm-swept planet Rigel XII in 2266, who joined Ben Childress in trading crystals to Harry Mudd in exchange for the women he had brought.
Herm Gossett is a lithium miner on Rigel XII, seen in the episode Mudd's Women. With Ben Childress and Benton he makes up the entire population of the bleak mining station that the Enterprise must reach after burning out its lithium crystals.
The three miners have been alone for years, and when Harry Mudd contacts them in secret they agree to withhold their crystals from Kirk unless the charges against Mudd are dropped and the women are handed over as wives.
Gossett is seen dancing and squabbling over the women in the miners' quarters, a quarrel that ends in a fight and sends Eve McHuron running out into a magnetic storm. He takes one of the other two women as his wife by subspace radio marriage. He was played by Jon Kowal.