American journalist and music chart historian who wrote an episode of the animated Star Trek under a pseudonym and later co-wrote Ménage à Troi and the story of The Game for The Next Generation.
Fred Bronson is an American journalist and author, long associated with Billboard magazine and known for The Billboard Book of Number One Hits.
While working as a network publicist in the 1970s he wrote The Counter-Clock Incident, the final episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series, under the name John Culver. The episode introduced Robert April as the first captain of the Enterprise.
He returned to Star Trek with Susan Sackett as his writing partner. Together they wrote Ménage à Troi for the third season of The Next Generation and devised the story for The Game, in which an addictive device takes over the crew and Wesley Crusher has to resist it.