American television writer who devised the story of Space Seed, the original Star Trek episode that introduced Khan Noonien Singh, and shares its teleplay credit with Gene L. Coon.
Carey Wilber was a television writer whose science-fiction credits reached back to Captain Video and His Video Rangers in the 1950s and also included Lost in Space and The Time Tunnel.
He wrote the story for Space Seed and shares the teleplay credit with Gene L. Coon. The Enterprise finds the sleeper ship SS Botany Bay and revives its leader, Khan Noonien Singh, a genetically engineered ruler who fled Earth after the Eugenics Wars. Khan seduces the historian Marla McGivers, seizes the ship and is finally exiled by Kirk to Ceti Alpha V.
The episode became the foundation of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and its back-story has been drawn on by later films and series.