American writer (1929–2015), co-author of Logan's Run and a contributor to The Twilight Zone, who wrote The Man Trap, the first Star Trek episode ever broadcast.
George Clayton Johnson was an American science fiction writer, born in 1929. He wrote several admired episodes of The Twilight Zone, including Kick the Can and Nothing in the Dark, and co-wrote the novel Logan's Run with William F. Nolan.
His one Star Trek script is The Man Trap, the episode NBC chose to open the series on 8 September 1966. On planet M-113 the Enterprise crew meet the last survivor of a native species, a shape-changing creature that needs salt to live and takes the form of a woman McCoy once loved.
The story's sympathy for a lonely monster, the last of its kind, is typical of Johnson's work. He died in 2015.