Gerry Conway
Gerry Conway  was one of the primary writers of the Star Trek comic strip in 1983.

He has been a professional writer since he was sixteen. He has written a wide variety of materials including comic books, novels, short stories, screenplays, and television shows. In the comics industry, is he best known for his run on The Amazing Spider-Man, during which Gwen Stacey died and  was introduced to the Marvel universe. His other main creation was with Al Milgrom, the DC character .

He authored the final five arcs of the series, beginning  and ending :
 #16 Sixteenth Story Arc
 #17: "Goodbye to Spock"
 #18: Eighteenth Story Arc
 #19 "The Retirement of Admiral Kirk"
 #20: Twentieth Story Arc

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Conway, Gerry