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- Gene L. Coon was an American screenwriter and television producer. He is best remembered for his work on the original Star Trek series. Often referred to as 'the forgotten Gene' (a reference to Gene Roddenberry), Gene Lee Coon was one of the most important creative minds behind "Star Trek" (1966).
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Eugene Lee Coon (January 7, 1924 – July 8, 1973) was an American screenwriter, television producer, and novelist. He is best remembered for his work on the original Star Trek as a screenwriter, story editor, and showrunner from the middle of the series' first season to the middle of the second.
Gene L. Coon. Writer: Star Trek. The son of U.S. Army Sgt Merle Jack ''Pug'' Coon and decorator Erma Gay Noakes, Eugene Lee Coon was born in Beatrice Nebraska on January 7, 1924.
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Nov 8, 2017 · Star Trek’s other Gene — the influential writer and producer Gene L. Coon. I’ve been watching eagerly as Star Trek: Discovery ushers in a new era of Trek on TV. It’s done so by...
Gene L. Coon (7 January 1924 – 8 July 1973; age 49), sometimes credited under the pseudonym "Lee Cronin", was a writer and producer for Star Trek: The Original Series.
Sep 5, 2016 · Coon, who died in 1973, didn't want to make Star Trek unless he had creative leeway, and he got a higher-paying job on a show called It Takes a Thief. But production documents show that Coon ...
Dec 25, 2023 · From 1958-1963, Gene L. Coon wrote 24 episodes of Wagon Train, many of them considered the series' best. Coon's untimely passing, however, meant he never got to see the Star Trek renaissance and, unfortunately, his contributions are sometimes overlooked in the series' history.
Mar 8, 2017 · Writer-Producer Gene L. Coon was so taken with what Prohaska had just done that he was immediately inspired to write “The Devil in the Dark”… so that he could upend its basic trope of the dangerous alien monster.
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