RIP D.C. FONTANA

Very sorry to learn of the death of writer D.C. FONTANA. She was a regular guest at the many parties thrown by MAJEL BARRETT RODDENBERRY which I often attended, and I always enjoyed sitting and talking with her. Her creative contributions to STAR TREK were historic, and they still reverberate through the franchise to this very day.

D.C. Fontana, the famed TV writer best known for Star Trek: The Original Series who blazed a trail for storytelling and women in science fiction, died Monday after a brief illness. She was 80. The American Film Institute announced today the news of Fontana's passing.