American television director who directed The Squire of Gothos, the first-season original Star Trek episode featuring William Campbell as the childish, all-powerful Trelane.
Don McDougall was a prolific director of filmed television from the 1950s to the 1980s, particularly of westerns such as Bonanza and The Virginian.
His single Star Trek credit is The Squire of Gothos, written by Paul Schneider. The Enterprise is stopped by a rogue planet whose only inhabitant, Trelane, styles himself a retired general and fills his manor with relics of an Earth he has watched from centuries out of date. He toys with Kirk and the bridge officers, puts the captain on trial and hunts him across the grounds before his parents arrive to end the game.
Trelane has often been compared with the later Q, and the episode remains one of the best-liked of the first season.