American television writer who served as story consultant on the original Star Trek for part of its first season, wrote Operation -- Annihilate! and co-wrote the teleplay of Court Martial.
Steven W. Carabatsos was a television writer who joined the original Star Trek in the middle of its first season as story consultant, the post that John D. F. Black had held and that D. C. Fontana later took over.
During his months on staff he revised other writers' scripts and shares the teleplay credit on Court Martial with Don M. Mankiewicz. After leaving he delivered Operation -- Annihilate!, the season's final episode, in which neural parasites overrun the colony on Deneva and Spock is temporarily blinded during the search for a way to kill them.
Carabatsos continued to write and produce for American television through the 1970s and 1980s.