Of course, David Gerrold is best known for writing The Trouble With Tribbles, and the animated sequel, More Tribbles, More Trouble.

He also wrote an original TOS novel, The Galactic Whirlpool, which I reviewed in the Trek Novels section.

He was one of the people involved in getting TNG up to speed. Unfortunately, Mr. Gerrold, like Dorothy Fontana, would run afoul of Gene Roddenberry's lawyer, Leonard Maizlish, who would sour his relationship with Gene and cause him to leave TNG before the first season was done.

However, it seemed that Mr. Gerrold and Gene Roddenberry were on their way to reconciliation when Gene died in 1991.

Although he didn't write it, David Gerrold was involved with the DS9 episode, Trials and Tribble-Ations. He appears throughout the episode as a security guard, the oldest one on the ship (Mr. Gerrold joked that this was because he never beamed down to any planets).

David Gerrold has more than earned his place in the Trek roster.

David Gerrold was in the Rec Deck crowd scene in TMP; he's in the front row, wearing a tan, one piece uniform. (I wonder if he played the same character from "Trials and Tribbleations". If he did, he's mastered reverse aging like Benjamin Button. )

I know. That scene had a whole bunch of Trek related people in it.

I believe that David Gerrold and Dorothy Fontana are the last two surviving people who wrote for TOS.

I believe that David Gerrold and Dorothy Fontana are the last two surviving people who wrote for TOS.

And now David Gerrold is the last survivor.

Correction; Stephen Kandel is still alive at the age of 93.
And so is, apparently, Arthur Wallace, Steven W. Carabatsos, Jean Lisette Aroeste, Judy Burns, Chet Richards, Joyce Muskat, Laurence N. Wolfe, and Norman Spinrad!
Geez, guys, let's not rush things!
And a little research might surprise you how many people involved in Trek, in their 70's, 80's, or 90's are still around!

Didn't realize that so many still lived. It's been fifty years, after all.

They're at that awkward age where if they die people are surprised that they were still alive. "I thought they died years ago."

Of course, David Gerrold is one of the more well known people that wrote for Trek.