Dorothy Catherine Fontana (March 25, 1939 – December 2, 2019)
NEW YORK (AP) — D.C. Fontana, a writer and story editor for the original
“Star Trek” television series and later a contributor to “Star Trek: The
Next Generation" and other related projects, has died.
Fran Evans, a family friend, told The Associated Press that she died
Tuesday after a brief illness.
A native of Sussex, New Jersey, Fontana worked on a wide range of
other TV shows, from “Bonanza” and “Ben Casey,” along with “Star
Trek: The Next Generation" and “Star Trek: New Voyages." She also
wrote the “Star Trek” novel “Vulcan’s Glory," about Spock’s first
mission on the U.S.S. Enterprise.
