American writer who served as a story editor on the second season of Deep Space Nine, earning credits on The Alternate, Paradise and Playing God.
Jim Trombetta is an American writer and journalist who worked on the staff of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine during its second season.
He shared the story credit for The Alternate, in which Odo's mentor Doctor Mora Pol visits the station, and for Paradise, in which Sisko and O'Brien are stranded in a colony that has rejected technology. He also devised the story of Playing God, about a Trill initiate assigned to Jadzia Dax, and shared its teleplay with Michael Piller.
Away from Star Trek he wrote for series such as Miami Vice and The Flash, and is the author of The Horror! The Horror!, a history of the horror comics of the 1950s.