American television writer who wrote the teleplay of The Return of the Archons, the original Star Trek episode about the computer-ruled society of Landru, from a story by Gene Roddenberry.
Boris Sobelman was a television writer of the 1960s with credits on several network drama series.
For Star Trek he wrote the teleplay of The Return of the Archons from a story by Gene Roddenberry. Searching Beta III for traces of the lost starship Archon, Kirk finds a placid population absorbed into the Body and governed by the unseen Landru, with a nightly outburst of violence known as the Festival. Landru proves to be a machine built six thousand years earlier, which Kirk argues into destroying itself.
The episode contains the first on-screen reference to the Prime Directive and set the pattern for later stories in which Kirk talks a computer to death.