American science-fiction novelist and screenwriter (1913–2002) who wrote The Corbomite Maneuver and supplied the stories for This Side of Paradise and Whom Gods Destroy.
Jerry Sohl was an American novelist and television writer who had written for The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits before Star Trek. He was among the established science-fiction authors approached by Gene Roddenberry at the start of the series.
His script The Corbomite Maneuver was the first regular episode to be filmed and set out Kirk's talent for bluff when the Enterprise is confronted by the giant ship Fesarius.
Sohl also devised the story of This Side of Paradise, for which D.C. Fontana wrote the teleplay; he took his credit under the pen name Nathan Butler. In the third season he shared the story credit for Whom Gods Destroy with Lee Erwin.