American screenwriter who wrote the teleplays of three third-season episodes of the original Star Trek: Wink of an Eye, The Way to Eden and The Savage Curtain.
Arthur Heinemann was an American film and television writer brought in during the third season of the original Star Trek, when he turned three outlines by other hands into shooting scripts.
Wink of an Eye, from a story credited to Lee Cronin, concerns the hyper-accelerated Scalosians who take over the Enterprise. The Way to Eden, on which he shared the story credit, follows Dr Sevrin and his young followers in their search for a mythical paradise planet.
For The Savage Curtain he shared the teleplay credit with Gene Roddenberry, who wrote the story. That episode introduced Surak of Vulcan and Kahless of the Klingons, figures who became central to later Star Trek, alongside a recreated Abraham Lincoln.