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The eldest 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. At four years of age, young Gene showed talent, singing on the radio at WOAW-AM in Omaha. He knew 24 songs, including one in French and one in German. In his youth, Coon was a member of the ...
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. 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.
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. He produced the first season of the series from "Miri" to "Operation -- Annihilate!" and the second season from "Catspaw" to "A Private Little War", earning him a 1967 Emmy Award nomination. Coon was hired as line producer in ...
Sep 5, 2016 · "A lot of *Star Trek'*s popularity is [the result of] Gene L. Coon's creations," says David Gerrold, who wrote the classic episode "The Trouble With Tribbles." According to Gerrold, Gene ...
Dec 25, 2023 · Gene L. Coon, often overlooked, was a vital contributor to the success and enduring legacy of Star Trek: The Original Series. Coon created iconic villains such as the Klingons and Khan Noonien Singh, and shaped important aspects of the Star Trek universe. Despite clashes with Gene Roddenberry over the show's comedic tone, Coon's work helped ...
Nov 8, 2017 · Revisiting “The Lost Era: Serpent Among the Ruins” Retro Review
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.
Feb 20, 2024 · Because Gene L. Coon was essentially what we’d now call a showrunner, he often wrote scripts when the show ran low on new stories. “Arena” was an example of a script Coon wrote very quickly ...
Ande Richardson (assistant to writer Gene L. Coon) Shatner would take every line that wasn’t nailed down. “This should be the captain’s line!”
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