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Jean Lisette Aroeste [1] (2 October 1932 – August 2020) was an American screenwriter. A librarian at the University of California, Los Angeles, she was a Star Trek fan who became one of four writers with no prior television writing credits ( David Gerrold, Judy Burns and Joyce Muskat were the other three) to sell scripts to the program. [2]
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Jean Lisette Aroeste, MLS (2 October 1932 – August 2020; age 87) was an acquisitions department librarian at Harvard from 1954 until 1962, when she became a reference librarian at UCLA. She was not a professional television writer until Robert H. Justman read her unsolicited script "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" and recommended it be bought. She later wrote the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "All Our Yesterdays". She also wrote outlines for an undeveloped episode titled "The Foreseeable Future".
Aroeste's Star Trek contributions were her only work for film or television, although she did have other work related to her career as a librarian including co-editor, Directory of scholarly and research publishing opportunities: a guide to academic publishing opportunities in the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology (1971).
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The Precursor to "All Our Yesterdays" written by Jean Lisette Aroeste STORY OUTLINE, dated September 23, 1968 report & analysis by David Eversole. Since Aroeste's outline does not indicate act breaks, and since it is quite different than the aired episode, I will simply synopsize the story without guessing where they would have fallen.
Mar 10, 2023 · The episode has plenty of action, but is perhaps most famous for summarizing Vulcan philosophy in a beautiful fashion that rings true today. There is infinite diversity in infinite combinations, and writer Jean Lisette Aroeste crafted the running theme of diversity in its infinite beauty perfectly.
Writer: Star Trek. Jean Lisette Aroeste was born on 2 October 1932 in Richmond, Virginia, USA. Jean Lisette is a writer, known for Star Trek (1966).
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Jean Lisette Aroeste. Directed by. Ralph Senensky. In-universe date. ←. 5630.7-5630.8 ( 2268 ) →. A beautiful woman escorts an alien ambassador so hideously ugly that the sight of him can drive a Human insane. Contents. 1Summary. 1.1Teaser. 1.2Act One. 1.3Act Two. 1.4Act Three. 1.5Act Four. 2Log entries.
Written by Jean Lisette Aroeste and directed by Marvin J. Chomsky, it was first broadcast March 14, 1969. In the episode, Captain Kirk, Spock and Dr. McCoy are trapped in two timeframes of another planet's past. It guest-stars Mariette Hartley as Zarabeth and Ian Wolfe as Mr. Atoz.
