Veteran American television director (1910–1993) who directed the original Star Trek episodes Operation -- Annihilate! and The Savage Curtain, after years on anthology and western series.
Herschel Daugherty was one of the busiest directors of American television's first two decades, with dozens of episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Wagon Train among his credits.
He directed two episodes of the original Star Trek, two years apart. Operation -- Annihilate!, the closing episode of the first season, takes the Enterprise to the colony on Deneva, where flying neural parasites have driven the population mad and killed Kirk's brother Sam. The Savage Curtain, from the third season, has the rock-like Excalbians stage a contest between good and evil, pairing Kirk and Spock with images of Abraham Lincoln and Surak of Vulcan.
The second of these introduced both Surak and the Klingon Kahless to Star Trek lore.