American television writer and producer (1943–2008), celebrated for WKRP in Cincinnati, who wrote the Deep Space Nine episodes The Alternate and Tribunal during the second season.
Bill Dial was an American writer and producer best remembered for his work on the comedy WKRP in Cincinnati, including its famous Thanksgiving episode Turkeys Away.
He wrote two episodes for the second season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The Alternate, from a story he shared with Jim Trombetta, brings Odo back into contact with the Bajoran scientist who studied him. Tribunal, which Dial wrote alone, sees Miles O'Brien seized by the Cardassians and put through a trial whose verdict is fixed in advance.
His other credits include Simon and Simon, Sliders and 18 Wheels of Justice. He died in 2008.