American television writer and producer (1924–1993), co-creator of Have Gun – Will Travel and developer of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., who wrote The Vengeance Factor and Deep Space Nine's Vortex.
Sam Rolfe was an American writer and producer whose career ran from 1950s westerns to the 1990s. He co-created Have Gun – Will Travel, on which Gene Roddenberry was a writer, and developed The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Late in life he wrote two Star Trek episodes. The Vengeance Factor, in the third season of The Next Generation, involves Picard mediating between the Acamarians and their outcast Gatherers while an assassin pursues an ancient clan feud.
Vortex, in the first season of Deep Space Nine, has a fugitive tempt Odo with the promise of knowledge about other shapeshifters. Rolfe died in 1993, shortly after it was broadcast.