American television writer, known for The Outer Limits, who wrote Plato's Stepchildren, the third-season original Star Trek episode remembered for the kiss between Kirk and Uhura.
Meyer Dolinsky was a television writer of the 1950s to 1970s whose science-fiction work included several episodes of The Outer Limits, among them The Architects of Fear.
His one Star Trek script is Plato's Stepchildren. Answering a medical emergency, Kirk, Spock and McCoy find the Platonians, a handful of long-lived aesthetes who model themselves on ancient Greece and possess telekinetic powers. Their leader Parmen wants McCoy to stay and humiliates Kirk and Spock to force his agreement, making them sing, dance and finally embrace Uhura and Nurse Chapel. The dwarf jester Alexander, the only Platonian without the power, helps them find its source.
The forced kiss between Kirk and Uhura became one of the most discussed moments in the series.