American television writer (1927–2023) who shaped the roguish Harry Mudd across Mudd's Women, I, Mudd and the animated Mudd's Passion, and also wrote the animated episode The Jihad.
Stephen Kandel was an American television writer, born in 1927, with credits on many action and adventure series, among them Mission: Impossible, Wonder Woman and MacGyver.
For Star Trek he wrote the teleplay of Mudd's Women (1966), from a story by Gene Roddenberry, which introduced the swindler Harcourt Fenton Mudd, played by Roger C. Carmel. He brought the character back in I, Mudd (1967), set on a planet of androids, making Mudd the only non-crew character to recur in live action in the original series.
Kandel wrote two episodes of the animated series in 1973 and 1974: Mudd's Passion, a third outing for Mudd, and The Jihad. He died in 2023.