Fred Bronson

Fred Bronson is a script writer who also used John Culver as a pseudonym.
In , Bronson wrote the second season episode using his pseudonym, John Culver. At the time, Bronson was the NBC publicist assigned to the series. A year earlier, he had been the publicist on Gene Roddenberry's The Questor Tapes. Bronson had been told that as an NBC employee he was allowed to write for NBC series, but when he asked permission to write an episode of TAS was told it was a conflict of interest. Thus, he created his pseudonym, named for Culver City, California, where he grew up.
Bronson introduced Susan Sackett to Roddenberry – and in 1974, she was hired as Roddenberry's personal executive assistant.
He co-wrote two episodes for with writing partner Susan Sackett: the third season's and the story for the fifth season's .
Bronson also appeared as an Enterprise crewmember in the rec deck scene in . The DVD box release featured a reunion of fan extras in the "Special Star Trek Reunion", including Bronson, David Gerrold, Bjo Trimble, Jo Ann Nolan, and Christopher Doohan chatting on the same soundstage used for the rec deck scene. Bronson was additionally interviewed in , by Starburst magazine (Special #29, pp. 55-58).
Bronson considered himself a personal friend of Roddenberry and was a such, along with Susan Sackett, included in several chapters as an interviewee on Roger Lay, Jr.'s 2016 Star Trek: The Journey to the Silver Screen 50th anniversary documentary.
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