American director (1929–2022) who directed three third-season episodes of the original Star Trek before winning several Emmy Awards for miniseries including Holocaust and Inside the Third Reich.
Marvin J. Chomsky began in television as an art director and set decorator before moving into directing in the late 1960s. Star Trek came early in that second career.
He directed three episodes of the third season: And the Children Shall Lead, in which orphaned children on Triacus fall under the sway of the malevolent Gorgan; Day of the Dove, in which an energy being traps Kirk's crew and Kang's Klingons in endless combat aboard the Enterprise; and All Our Yesterdays, which strands Kirk, Spock and McCoy in the past of the doomed planet Sarpeidon.
Chomsky went on to become one of the leading directors of the television miniseries, working on Roots and directing Holocaust, Inside the Third Reich and Peter the Great.