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RIP Star Trek's DC Fontana
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12-04-2019, 03:28 AM
As a writer, Fontana is credited with many episodes focusing on Vulcan culture and helped blaze a trail for female writers in sci-fi television. She is the mind behind The Original Series and The Animated Series episodes like “Yesteryear” and “Journey to Babel,” which introduced Spock’s father Sarek and mother Amanda.
https://www.startrek.com/news/dc-fontana-1939-2019
12-04-2019, 01:54 PM
This made me immediately think of the Deep Space 9 episode “Beyond The Stars” and I looked it up and there is a direct reference to DC Fontana.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708538/trivia Kira's alter ego, the female writer forced to use her initials to hide her sex, is a direct reference to D.C. Fontana (Dorothy Catherine), a writer on (among others) the original Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) who had to do the same. According to an interview in Star Trek Monthly #40, the Incredible Tales staff were based on various real-life genre authors. For instance, Albert Macklin was intended as an homage to Isaac Asimov. Kay Eaton, who wrote under the name K.C. Hunter to hide her gender, was a version of Catherine Moore, who similarly wrote under the name C.L. Moore, as well as Star Trek: The Original Series (1966)'s own D.C. Fontana. Indeed, Albert's first novel was to be published by Gnome Press, as was Asimov's debut book in 1950, a collection of short stories entitled I, Robot. |
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