| abstract | - Ray Bradbury (1920 - 2012) was a legendary science fiction author and screenwriter, who was asked by the Star Trek production staff to pitch stories for the series. Bradbury visited the sets, but finally said no. (Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1 DVD Special Features) Bradbury was mentioned in dialogue in DS9: "Far Beyond the Stars" and the USS Bradbury was named in his honor. Bradbury is probably most well-known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, his anthologies The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man, and the horror novel Something Wicked This Way Comes, which all have been made into films or television series. He also wrote the screenplays for the 1956 version of Moby Dick (co-starring Orson Welles) and the 1953 sci-fi film It Came From Outer Space. He also wrote the teleplay for The Twilight Zone episode "I Sing the Body Electric". Between 1985 and 1992 Bradbury hosted the anthology series The Ray Bradbury Theater, which featured television adaptations based on his short stories. One of the episodes called "The Playground" starred William Shatner.
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