Dorothy Catherine Fontana is 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]
| IDW Publishing writers and editors | ||
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| Writers | Mike W. Barr • John Byrne • Derek Chester • Peter David • Keith R.A. DeCandido • Ian Edginton • D.C. Fontana • Andrew Steven Harris • Tim Jones • Mike Johnson • Stuart Moore • James Patrick • Chris Ryall • Andy Schmidt • Paul D. Storrie • David Tipton • Scott Tipton • David Tischman • Ty Templeton |  |
| Story credits | Harve Bennett • Alex Kurtzman • Roberto Orci • Rick Remender • Jack B. Sowards | |
| Editors | Scott Dunbier • Andrew Steven Harris • Chris Ryall • Andy Schmidt • Dan Taylor • Denton J. Tipton | |
Dorothy Catherine Fontana (born March 25, 1939) is an American television writer. Best known for writing ten episodes of the original Star Trek series (including that one where Spock got high on spores and smacked Kirk around), she has also written scripts for The Streets of San Francisco, The Waltons, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Babylon 5 and Reboot.
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