28 Facts About David Gerrold

David Gerrold was born on Jerrold David Friedman; January 24,1944 and is an American science fiction screenwriter and novelist.

David Gerrold wrote the script for the original Star Trek episode "The Trouble with Tribbles", created the Sleestak race on the TV series Land of the Lost, and wrote the novelette "The Martian Child", which won both Hugo and Nebula Awards, and was adapted into a 2007 film starring John Cusack.

David Gerrold attended Van Nuys High School and graduated from Ulysses S Grant High School in its first graduating class, Los Angeles Valley College, and San Fernando Valley State College.

David Gerrold's story involved a man transported from a shuttlecraft trying out a new space warp technology.

The script went through numerous rewrites, including, at the insistence of David Gerrold's agent, being re-set in a stock frontier town instead of an "expensive" space station.

David Gerrold later wrote a book, The Trouble with Tribbles, telling the story of producing the episode and his earlier premises.

The Trouble with Tribbles was one of two books David Gerrold wrote about Star Trek in the early 1970s after the original series had been canceled.

David Gerrold's other was an analysis of the series, entitled The World of Star Trek, in which he criticized some of the elements of the show, particularly Kirk's habit of placing himself in dangerous situations and leading landing parties himself.

David Gerrold contributed two stories for the Emmy Award-winning Star Trek: The Animated Series which ran from 1973 to 1974: "More Tribbles, More Troubles" and "Bem".

Many of the changes David Gerrold had advocated in The World of Star Trek were incorporated into Star Trek: The Next Generation when it debuted in 1987.

David Gerrold parted company with the producers at the beginning of the first season.

David Gerrold wrote a script for Star Trek: The Next Generation entitled "Blood and Fire", which included an AIDS metaphor and a gay couple in the ship's crew.

David Gerrold later reworked the story into the third book in the Star Wolf series and again as a two-part episode of the fan-produced Star Trek: New Voyages, which he directed.

David Gerrold had wanted to appear onscreen in an episode of Star Trek, particularly "The Trouble with Tribbles".

The character of Ensign Freeman, who appears in the bar scene with the Klingons, was originally intended by David Gerrold to be a walk-on part for himself, however another actor took the role since David Gerrold was deemed too thin at the time.

David Gerrold had an in-joke cameo of sorts in Star Trek The Animated Series: "More Tribbles, More Troubles" where a very thin Ensign is told to seal off the transporter room area by Kirk.

David Gerrold wrote a novelization of the Star Trek: The Next Generation series premiere "Encounter at Farpoint", published in 1987, and an original Star Trek novel titled The Galactic Whirlpool, published in 1980, which was based on his story outline "Tomorrow Was Yesterday".

David Gerrold acted as a series consultant for fan-produced series Star Trek: New Voyages and Star Trek: Phase II starting in 2006.

David Gerrold is the author of the War Against the Chtorr series of books, about an invasion of Earth by mysterious aliens: A Matter for Men, A Day for Damnation, A Rage for Revenge, and A Season for Slaughter.

David Gerrold eventually announced that what was initially supposed to be a trilogy would in fact require seven books.

David Gerrold is considering crowdfunding and other ways to raise money to fund completion of organization of the material and final writing for the two books.

David Gerrold released to fans a cliffhanger teaser chapter from Method for Madness.

David Gerrold had planned to develop this concept into a TV series, as he writes in an introduction to Voyage of the Star Wolf.

David Gerrold has made several uncredited appearances on the TV series The Big Bang Theory.

In 2005, David Gerrold was awarded the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology in Telluride, Colorado.

In 2013, David Gerrold wrote a Starcraft 2 short story titled "In the Dark" for Blizzard Entertainment's series of Starcraft short stories.

David Gerrold continues to write and publish online on Patreon and other mediums.

David Gerrold is a proponent of personal development programs such as Lifespring and Landmark, among others.