American science fiction author who wrote The Doomsday Machine, a Hugo-nominated Original Series episode.
Norman Spinrad (born 1940) is an American science fiction author, essayist and critic, known for novels such as Bug Jack Barron and The Iron Dream. His fiction has received the Prix Apollo and numerous Hugo and Nebula nominations.
For Star Trek he wrote The Doomsday Machine (1967), in which the Enterprise encounters a planet-destroying automaton and the shattered USS Constellation under Commodore Matt Decker. The episode was nominated for a Hugo Award. Spinrad also wrote a script for the unproduced Star Trek: Phase II series, and his other television work includes Land of the Lost.