D.C. Fontana

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Dorothy Catherine Fontana is a writer and script editor who has the distinction of being one of the few people to have worked on Star Trek: The Original Series, as well as Star Trek: The Animated Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Fontana wrote several notable TOS episodes, including "Journey to Babel", and acted as script consultant in TOS's second season. She was the associate producer and story editor of TAS for which she also wrote the episode "Yesteryear". She later co-wrote TNG's "Encounter at Farpoint," where she invented the "LCARS" concept and DS9's "Dax", her last involvement with Star Trek, where a great deal of Jadzia Dax's backstory was fleshed out. More recently she has also written an episode of Star Trek: New Voyages.

In the DS9 episode "Far Beyond the Stars", the character Kay Eaton, who had to pose as a male to get her science fiction stories published, is a homage to Fontana.

Outside of Trek, Fontana wrote scripts for dozens of shows, including Babylon 5 and Earth: Final Conflict.

Writing Credits

• TOS:
  • "Charlie X" (teleplay)
  • "Tomorrow is Yesterday"
  • "This Side of Paradise" (story co-author, teleplay)
  • "Friday's Child"
  • "Journey to Babel"
  • "By Any Other Name" (teleplay co-author)
  • "The Ultimate Computer" (teleplay)
  • "The Enterprise Incident"