American freelance writer who sold several stories and scripts to Deep Space Nine, including Second Sight, Meridian and the Morn-centred comedy Who Mourns for Morn?
Mark Gehred-O'Connell is an American writer who was one of the more regular freelance contributors to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
He supplied the story and shared the teleplay of the second-season episode Second Sight, in which Benjamin Sisko falls for a woman who keeps vanishing. He wrote the teleplay for Meridian in the third season, about a planet that shifts between dimensions, from a story by Hilary J. Bader and Evan Carlos Somers.
His best-liked script is Who Mourns for Morn? from the sixth season, in which Quark inherits the estate of the apparently dead barfly and is pursued by Morn's former partners in crime.