D. C. Fontana

Again, didn't write it.

I mean, DC Fontana got a lover.

It's fun.

It's a backdoor pilot.

And I came in with some outlines.

Dorothy Fontana, who is also one of the greatest, said, this one has some whimsy, which I teased her about for years, whimsy.

Let's see what we can do with it.

And her memo said, let's buy the outline and give it to a real writer.

I'll be right back with Dan, and we will dive into everything overseas fandom.

As Dorothy Fontana told you, I am reluctant to let the blooper reel out of my hands for many reasons, including the one she gave you.

However, I can understand the dilemma of fans in England who would not otherwise ever get a chance to see the reel, and therefore I will make it available to you under certain conditions.

This letter, this exchange with Jean and Miss Jenny here from the UK, Mrs. Jenny from the UK, it blows my mind.

And to meet those writers and those producers and crawl through Rod Starling's attic when I was in my early 20s writing the book, it was such a pleasure, such an honor, you know, and I learned my craft and I learned sort of how to move through the world because of people like George Clayton Johnson and Matheson and Ray Bradbury, all these amazing, amazing men and women, too.

Dorothy Fontana, who wrote for Star Trek, you know.

the great DC Fontana.

So many people were just spectacular talents, and I'm very lucky to have known them.

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According to DC Fontana.

Special effects artist Jim Rugg was responsible for the light effects for the Guardian.

Um, Roland M. Brooks, uh, he was, uh, also credited as, uh, worked as an art director in Star Trek the original series beginning with the second pilot, Where No Man Has Gone Before.

An Andorian is now his first officer, and it appears that Spock met an untimely death during a childhood ritual on Vulcan.

Spock must use the Guardian again and return to the Vulcan of his youth and restore his timeline.

Writer DC Fontana-

Oh

Yes.

And he brought in DC Fontana, Theodore Sturgeon, Norman Spinrad.

Oh.

Uh, Harlan Ellison, I think, was either in there, or I think he pitched a, a story that maybe didn't get made.

Leonard Maislish, because

I've watched the doc a couple of times, right? Because I was surprised, like, watching Chaos on the Bridge and, you know, obviously DC Fontana.

I loved it for how blunt she was.

She was like, I don't know, I wouldn't trust Gene as far as I could throw him, but I still respect him.

It was Star Trek The New Voyages, and that became Star Trek Phase Two, and then there was an offshoot called Star Trek Continues.

And Walter Koenig was about to go do an episode and he was, and Dorothy Fontana, DC Fontana was writing it.

So I checked it out and I realized that there was an opportunity.

And so my friend, Michael Reeves, who brought me an animation, he had also by then written for Next Gen as I had, Star Trek.