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Dorothy Catherine Fontana (March 25, 1939 – December 2, 2019) [1] was an American television script writer and story editor, best known for her work on the original Star Trek series. [2]
D.C. Fontana (1939-2019) was a pioneering female author who worked on Star Trek, Logan's Run, Babylon 5 and other sci-fi shows and movies. She also wrote novels, taught at the American Film Institute and was inducted into the American Screenwriters Association Hall of Fame.
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Dec 3, 2019 · D.C. Fontana, who helped craft the lore of the 1960s television series “Star Trek” and developed one of its signature characters, Spock, as the show’s first female writer, died on Tuesday at ...
Dec 4, 2019 · Fontana, who went professionally by “D.C.,” passed away “peacefully” on Monday after fighting a brief illness, the American Film Institute, where she was a senior lecturer, announced Tuesday in...
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Dec 4, 2019 · D.C. Fontana, the pioneering TV writer who significantly shaped the "Star Trek" universe, in particular the character of Spock and his home planet, Vulcan, has died at 80.
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Dec 5, 2019 · D.C. Fontana, who overcame Hollywood’s sexism to become a writer and story editor for the original “Star Trek” television series and later a contributor to “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” has...
Dec 5, 2019 · Dorothy Fontana, better known to "Star Trek" fans as D.C. Fontana, died earlier this week at the age of 80. She was one of the first women to write science fiction screenplays for TV.