American television writer and producer, later the creator of S.W.A.T., who wrote the story of A Taste of Armageddon and shares its teleplay credit with Gene L. Coon.
Robert Hamner wrote for many American series of the 1960s, including Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Lost in Space, and went on to create the police series S.W.A.T.
For Star Trek he wrote the story of A Taste of Armageddon and shares the teleplay with Gene L. Coon. The Enterprise carries Ambassador Robert Fox to Eminiar VII, which has fought a five-hundred-year war with Vendikar entirely by computer: attacks are simulated and the calculated casualties report obediently to disintegration chambers. When the ship is declared destroyed, Kirk wrecks the computers and forces both worlds to face real war or make peace.
The episode contains the first mention of the United Federation of Planets by name.