The names on his list of potential writers included Heinlein, Asimov, and Ellison, who went on to write the classic “The City on the Edge of Forever.” He signed Robert Bloch, Sturgeon, and van Vogt, who wrote outlines but was unable to work within the confines of television, while the plot of “Arena,” in which Kirk faced an alien in a fight to the death, was credited to the Astounding story by Frederic Brown.
