American film and television director (1911–2008) who directed fourteen episodes of the original Star Trek, among them The City on the Edge of Forever, Amok Time and The Trouble with Tribbles.
Joseph Pevney (1911–2008) began as a stage and film actor before becoming a studio director at Universal in the 1950s and then a busy television director.
He joined Star Trek late in its first season with Arena and quickly became one of its two most frequently used directors. His episodes include The Devil in the Dark, The City on the Edge of Forever, Amok Time, Journey to Babel, The Trouble with Tribbles and The Immunity Syndrome.
Several of these are regularly ranked among the best episodes the franchise has produced, and Pevney was valued by the producers for delivering them efficiently and on schedule. He left the series during its second season.