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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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Mar 10, 2023 · Jean Lisette Aroeste, writer, "Is There No Truth in Beauty?" StarTrek.com Another popular episode from The Original Series, this episode follows psychologist Miranda Jones as she and the Enterprise travel with Medusan ambassador Kollos to his ship.
Unlike her fully-formed, adeptly handled story outline for "Is There In Truth No Beauty?", this six-page outline by Jean Lisette Aroeste is extremely broad, containing only very generalized sketches of the story.
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, MLS (born 2 October 1932; age 91) 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 Justman read her unsolicited script and recommended it be bought.
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.
