For the "real world" article on the writer and editor, please see Samuel A. Peeples.
Samuel Peeples was a science fiction writer in the 1950s who wrote the story "Where No Man Has Gone Before", which was published in the March 1953 issue of Incredible Tales magazine. (DS9: "Far Beyond the Stars")
This character was only mentioned in writing.
Samuel Peeples is an homage to the original "Where No Man Has Gone Before" writer Samuel A. Peeples.