D.C. Fontana

Dorothy C. Fontana was a television writer best known for the original Star Trek series. 
She passed away on December 2, 2019.
She started out as Gene Roddenberry's secretary, then went on to write many episodes under her own name as well as others. 
After Star Trek, she produced Star Trek: The Animated Series as well as writing scripts for Star Trek: The Next Generation and other science fiction shows such as The Six Million Dollar Man and Babylon 5. 
She also wrote for non-science fiction television, video games, comics, and at least two novels. She was responsible for the creation of Spock's parents Sarek and Amanda, and for much of Vulcan culture.
In an interview with Walter Koenig in T-Negative #7, the actor said that he misses Dorothy Fontana, who was no longer script editor on the show: "She always had an insight into all the characters. It might be just a few lines, but there'd be something in them that brought the character out." 
==From a 1973 Bio==
From a progress report for Vul-Con: 
==From a 1974 Bio==
D.C. Fontana was the guest of honor at Equicon in 1974. In the program book was a short bio:
==From a 1979 Interview==
==Depicted in Fanworks==
 Image:Onetrekmind2cartoon.jpg| D.C. Fontana and Gene Roddenberry in a cartoon from One Trek Mind #2 (1975), by Cory Correll 
Image:concordancesample12.jpg|from the 1969 Star Trek Concordance, artist is George Barr
==Con Guest of Honor, Panel Member, Staff==
 
===As a Participant===
Fontana was on panels, participated in costume contests, and attended room parties. 
In 1972, Joan Winston wrote about a room party at the first Star Trek Lives! con and an underground fan-created sexually explicit audio tape. See more at The First Explicit Audiofic. 
Joanie Winston wrote about this tape: 
===Comments About the Treatment of Con Guests===
From The Care and Feeding of Celebrities, a 1974 essay by Dorothy C. Fontana:
 
 
===From Con Program Books===
File:Spacecon1977-12.jpg|from the program book for Space-Con (177)
Image:phantasimconfontana.jpg|from the 1978 program book for Phantasmicon
 Image:hailingfrequencyMO2-4.jpg| a page from a con report printed in Hailing Frequency #2 (July 1973), portrays Fontana at Vul-Con I, photographer not credited
===The Cons===
* Conquest (2003)
* various Creation Cons, her first appearance at one was at the Las Vegas Creation Convention, August 8- 12, 2007 "Dorothy Fontana: This was her first [Creation] convention and she was clearly nervous. Adam Malin sat with her on stage. She said that the first script she ever sold was in 1960 and had Leonard Nimoy as a guest star. They had the same agent, knew each other years before Trek." -- from a con report printed in The K/S Press #133 
* Detroit Triple Fan Fair (1972)
* Enterprise One (1985)
* Equicon (1973, 1974, 1975, 1976)
* Fleet Academy North (1996)
* Filmcon (1972)
* FunCon (1968)
* Phantasmicon (1978) 
* Phoenix Fan Convention (1977)
 
* Rec-Con (1992)
* Space-Con (1977)
* Star Trek Lives! (1972, 1973, 1974)
* Starcon (Atlantic City) (1973)
* Starcon (San Diego) (1977)
* TerraCon (1978)
* Timecon (1988)
* Toronto Star Trek '76 (1976)
* Vul-Con (1973)
* Westercon (1975)
==Fans' Support, and Surprise, at Her Gender==
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==A Huge Spokesperson of "Star Trek: The Animated Series"==
Fontana, David Gerrold, and Gene Roddenberry were very prominent in fan spaces about their support of Star Trek: The Animated Series.
The animated series was heavily promoted by by D.C. Fontana in newsletters and letterzines, often accompanied by pleas to "give it a chance." Some of this correspondence was very personal and employed a manipulation of fan loyalty and fan desperation to see their show return in any form. In the early 1973 open letter, STAR TREK is coming back as an animated series!, Fontana wrote: "Please do not prejudge the series or dismiss it as a "kiddie show" not worthy of your attention because you will be doing a great injustice to Gene Roddenberry and all the other talented people who will be working hard to give you STAR TREK again..." She also wrote in early 1973: "I will personally destroy the next person I hear dismissing "Star Trek" in animation as "just a cartoon" not worthy of their attention. I am working hard -- and so are all the other people I mentioned -- to give them "Star Trek" just the way it was." from Despatch #15 
One source of detailed info about the show is In Her Own Words: An Interview with Dorothy Fontana (1974).
See the transcription of a speech: I'd like to talk about STAR TREK, past, present and future, and I don't know whether you're going to like what I have to say. by D.C. Fontana.
See more at Star Trek: The Animated Series.
See Fontana's 1973 open letter: I'd like to talk about STAR TREK, past, present and future, and I don't know whether you're going to like what I have to say.
==Influence on Canon, and Fanon==
===Spock's Family Name, and Other Canon Bits===
According to D.C. Fontana in a letter to Spockanalia, Spock's family/last name is Xtmprsqzntwlfb.
The exact wording D.C. Fontana used in her letter to Spockanalia was: 
See Spock's Name.
===The "Vulcan Kiss" ===
==Interviews==
* In Her Own Words: An Interview with Dorothy Fontana (1974)
==Meta==
* I'd like to talk about STAR TREK, past, present and future, and I don't know whether you're going to like what I have to say. by Fontana (1973)
* The Care and Feeding of Celebrities by Fontana (1974)
==Works==
For an extensive (but not exhaustive) listing of D.C. Fontana's work, see mlle's A D.C. Fontana Primer.
==References==
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