American television director (1923–2025) who directed six episodes of the original series, among them This Side of Paradise and Metamorphosis, and began a seventh, The Tholian Web.
Ralph Senensky was an American television director, born in 1923, whose long career included The Fugitive, The Twilight Zone, Mission: Impossible, The Waltons and Dynasty.
For Star Trek he directed This Side of Paradise in the first season; Metamorphosis, Obsession, Return to Tomorrow and Bread and Circuses in the second; and Is There in Truth No Beauty? in the third. He also began The Tholian Web but was replaced during filming, and the episode is credited to Herb Wallerstein.
His episodes are noted for careful work with actors and for an eye for composition, seen in the gentle love story of Metamorphosis. In later years he wrote at length about his television work online. He died in November 2025 at the age of 102.