Matheson returned to see the pilot a second time on March 16 (with a handful of other writers who would unsuccessfully try to get their material produced). In the room with him were future Star Trek writers George Clayton Johnson (“The Man Trap”), Paul Schneider (“Balance of Terror” and “The Squire of Gothos”), Oliver Crawford (“The Galileo Seven” and “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield”), John Kneubuhl (“Bread and Circuses”), and Meyer Dolinsky (“Plato’s Stepchildren”). Matheson’s introduction to Star Trek came with an invitation from Roddenberry and Desilu to attend one of the studio screenings of “Where No Man Has Gone Before.” He dropped in for the second of these, on March 8.
Daily Variety called it “a scary combo of private-eye-tough-guy and sci-fi, well-written by Richard Matheson.” By 1964, Matheson was scripting tongue-in-cheek horror films for American-International - such as The Comedy of Terror, again teaming Price, Lorre and Karloff, and 1965’s Die! Die! My Darling! Right before this Star Trek assignment, he scripted “Time of Flight” for Bob Hope Chrysler Theatre.
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