D.C. Fontana

Dorothy Catherine Fontana (25 March 1939 - 2 December 2019) was a writer and script editor who has worked on Star Trek since its creation in the 1960s. She wrote several episodes from The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine as well novels, comics and video games.

Fontana's first and only novel to date is Vulcan's Glory which was published 1989. In 1999 she wrote the story for the video game Secret of Vulcan Fury which was ultimately unreleased. In the 2000s she, with her writing partner Derek Chester, wrote the story for a video game for Activision and later two more for Bethesda Softworks.

In 2007 she was interviewed for IDW's behind-the-scenes book Focus on... Star Trek and shortly after she revealed she was working on a five part miniseries for the comics publisher, again written with Derek Chester. She and Chester are also working on a new Star Trek novel and she would like to rework her Secret of Vulcan Fury story into a novel. ^[1]

Star Trek credits

Title	Series	Format	Collaborator	Publishedmem	Image
Charlie X	The Original Series	episode	Teleplay for a story by Gene Roddenberry	15 September 1966
Tomorrow is Yesterday	The Original Series	episode	--	26 January 1967
This Side of Paradise	The Original Series	episode	Story co-written with Nathan Butler	2 March 1967
Friday's Child	The Original Series	episode	--	1 December 1967
Journey to Babel	The Original Series	episode	--	17 November 1967
By Any Other Name	The Original Series	episode	Teleplay co-written for a story by Jerome Bixby	23 February 1968
The Ultimate Computer	The Original Series	episode	Teleplay for a story by Laurence N. Wolf	8 March 1968
The Enterprise Incident	The Original Series	episode	--	27 September 1968
That Which Survives	The Original Series	episode	Under the pseudonym Michael Richards	24 January 1969
The Way to Eden	The Original Series	episode	Co-written with Arthur Heinemann under the pseudonym Michael Richards	28 February 1969
Yesteryear	The Animated Series	episode	--	15 September 1973
Encounter at Farpoint	The Next Generation	episode	--	28 September 1987
The Naked Now	The Next Generation	episode	Co-written with John D.F. Black under the pseudonym J. Michael Bingham	5 October 1987
Lonely Among Us	The Next Generation	episode	Teleplay for a story by Michael Halperin	2 November 1987
Too Short a Season	The Next Generation	episode	Teleplay co-written for a story by Michael Michaelian	8 February 1988
Heart of Glory	The Next Generation	episode	Story co-written with Maurice Hurley & Herbert Wright	21 March 1988
Vulcan's Glory	The Original Series	novel	--	February 1989
Dax	Deep Space Nine	episode	Teleplay co-written with Peter Allan Fields	14 February 1993
Bridge Commander	The Next Generation	video game	Co-written with Derek Chester	March 2002
Tactical Assault	The Original Series	video game	Co-written with Derek Chester	October 2006
Legacy	Star Trek	video game	Co-written with Derek Chester	November 2006
The Enterprise Experiment, Part 1	The Original Series	comic	Co-written with Derek Chester	16 April 2008
The Enterprise Experiment, Part 2	The Original Series	comic	Co-written with Derek Chester	29 May 2008
The Enterprise Experiment, Part 3	The Original Series	comic	Co-written with Derek Chester	2 July 2008
The Enterprise Experiment, Part 4	The Original Series	comic	Co-written with Derek Chester	30 July 2008
The Enterprise Experiment, Part 5	The Original Series	comic	Co-written with Derek Chester	27 August 2008

Appendices

External links

• D.C. Fontana article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.