Television writer and producer (1912–1999) credited with Who Mourns for Adonais?, the second-season episode in which the Enterprise meets the Greek god Apollo.
Gilbert Ralston was a journalist, producer and television writer whose one Star Trek credit is Who Mourns for Adonais?, broadcast early in the second season. He is credited with the story and shares the teleplay credit with Gene L. Coon.
In the episode a giant hand of energy seizes the Enterprise above Pollux IV, where the being once worshipped on Earth as Apollo demands that the crew stay and adore him. Michael Forest played Apollo and Leslie Parrish the officer Carolyn Palamas.
Ralston wrote for many other series of the period and is also remembered for writing the pilot episode of The Wild Wild West.