American television writer and producer who devised The Inner Light, winner of a Hugo Award, and also wrote Starship Mine and two early episodes of Deep Space Nine.
Morgan Gendel is an American writer and producer who sold several scripts to Star Trek as a freelance in the early 1990s.
He created the story of The Inner Light, the fifth-season episode of The Next Generation in which an alien probe makes Picard live a whole lifetime as Kamin on the dying world of Kataan. He shares the teleplay credit with Peter Allan Fields. The episode won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1993.
Gendel followed it with Starship Mine, in which Picard fights thieves aboard the evacuated Enterprise. For Deep Space Nine he worked on The Passenger in the first season and wrote Armageddon Game in the second, which strands Bashir and O'Brien together.