Gene Roddenberry

class M planet n.	?a1965 G. Roddenberry Original outline for ‘Star Trek’ in S. E. Whitfield & G. Roddenberry Making of ‘Star Trek’ (1968) i. i. 24 You will confine your landings and contacts to Class ‘M’ planets, approximating Earth-Mars conditions.
phaser n.	1966 G. Roddenberry Memo 26 Apr. in S. E. Whitfield & G. Roddenberry Making of ‘Star Trek’ (1968) iii. i. 272 Reference the mating of various components of the phaser weapons…when the hand phaser is mated to the pistol, they should appear as one weapon.