Hendrik "Rik" Vollaerts (6 June 1915–15 March 1988; age 72) was a television writer during the 1950s and '60s. Vollaerts wrote the Star Trek: The Original Series third season episode "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky".
Vollaerts was born in The Netherlands, and immigrated to the United States at the age of six. He became a naturalized US citizen in 1940.
Vollaerts knew Gene Roddenberry from their days working together on the 1950s Ziv TV series Mr. District Attorney, and contacted him when he got the word that Star Trek needed a new story editor for its third season. Despite not hiring Vollaerts for the job (which went to Arthur Singer), Roddenberry liked his ideas and recommended him to Fred Freiberger, who eventually bought his story for "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky". (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three)
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