Biography
Mark O'Connell, also credited as Mark Gehred-O'Connell and Mark Eugene O'Connell, is an American screenwriter and author. He contributed stories and teleplays to several episodes of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), including the story and teleplay (with Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe) for the second-season episode 'Second Sight'. He also provided the original storyline (uncredited) for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode 'Timescape'.
O'Connell is the author of the 2017 biography The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs, about astronomer and ufologist J. Allen Hynek. He has worked as a television commentator and university lecturer.
