Dorothy Fontana
Dorothy Catherine "DC" Fontana (* 25. March 1939 in Sussex County , New Jersey , † 2. December 2019 ) was a US -American screenwriter , mainly for their incurred in the 1960 film scripts of the series Star Trek was known. She also wrote under the pen name J. Michael Bingham .
Life
Since 1960 Fontana has appeared as a screenwriter primarily for television series. After Spaceship Enterprise , she was also involved in other series and computer games from the Star Trek universe. She was the first ever female screenwriter here. All in all, she has been involved in more than 40 productions as a writer.
She was a scriptwriting teacher at the American Film Institute Conservatory .
In 2001 Fontana was inducted into the Screenwriting Hall of Fame by the American Screenwriters Association. The Writers Guild of America presented her with the Morgan Cox Award in 2002.
Fontana died at the age of 80. She was survived by her husband Dennis Skotak .
Scripts (selection)
Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS)
- 1966: The Charlie Case (1x02, Charlie X )
- 1967: Tomorrow is yesterday (1x19, Tomorrow Is Yesterday )
- 1967: In the name of young Tiru (2x11, Friday's Child )
- 1967: Journey to Babel (2x10, Journey to Babel )
- 1968: The Invisible Trap (3x02, The Enterprise Incident )
- 1969: Dangerous Planet Girls (3x17, That Which Survives )
- 1969: The Journey to Eden (3x20, The Way to Eden )
For the episodes Dangerous Planet Girls and The Journey to Eden , she wrote the plot of the episode under the pseudonym "Michael Richards".
Star Trek: The Animated Series
- 1973: The time portal (1x02, Yesteryear )
Star Trek: The Next Generation
- 1987: The Mighty and Mission Farpoint (1x01–1x02, Encounter at Farpoint )
- 1987: Gedankenzift (1x03, The Naked Now )
- 1987: The Mysterious Force (1x07, Lonely Among Us )
- 1988: The Admiral's Decision (1x16, Too Short A Season )
- 1988: Worfs Brothers (1x20, Heart of Glory )
Deep Space 9
- 1993: The "Dax" case (1x08, Dax )
Babylon 5
- The War Prayer
- Legacies
- A distant star
Works
- A computer is hunted , 1978, Bergisch Gladbach: Bastei Lübbe, ISBN 978-3-404-00947-3
- Star Trek: Vulkans Ruhm , 1996, Munich: Heyne, ISBN 978-3-453-07426-2
Web links
- Literature by and about Dorothy Fontana in the catalog of the German National Library
- Dorothy Fontana in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- DC Fontana in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Works by and about Dorothy Fontana at Open Library
- Fontana on gtjlcars.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ James Comtois: DC Fontana, Famed Writer for Star Trek, Dies at 80. In: syfy.com . December 3, 2019, accessed December 3, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fontana, Dorothy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fontana, Dorothy Catherine (full name); Fontana, DC (nickname); Bingham, J. Michael (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sussex County , New Jersey |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd December 2019 |