American writer and author of The Twilight Zone Companion who supplied the stories for The Next Generation's First Contact and Deep Space Nine's acclaimed Far Beyond the Stars.
Marc Scott Zicree is an American television writer and author, well known for The Twilight Zone Companion, a standard reference on Rod Serling's series.
He has two Star Trek story credits. The first is the fourth-season Next Generation episode First Contact, which tells a first-contact mission from the point of view of the Malcorians being contacted. The second is Far Beyond the Stars in the sixth season of Deep Space Nine, in which Sisko experiences life as Benny Russell, a science fiction writer in 1950s New York; the teleplay was by Ira Steven Behr and Hans Beimler.
His other work includes scripts for Sliders, Babylon 5 and many animated series.