Fun story. #TheAnimatedSeries was made during a #writersstrike; the show runner #DCFontana being a longtime writer herself knew the Union rules backwards and forwards. She knew any Union writer could write one episode of an animated series under the strike rules. So she went to every great writer she knew who needed work during the strike and offered them one episode. (wha) #StarTrek #STTAS #TAS
#theanimatedseries #writersstrike #dcfontana #startrek #sttas #tas
#StarTrek 83 (1973) - 10/10
Yesteryear, written by #DCFontana.
1️⃣ #MarkLenard as Sarek.
2️⃣ ❝I have returned to the past in an attempt to restore the future. I am home and I had almost forgotten its beauty.❞
3️⃣ Terrific time-travel story, which turns surprisingly emotional at the end with the passing of the pet sehlat. The premise is genuinely intriguing, with Spock posing as a distant cousin he remembers from when he was a child.
#startrek #dcfontana #marklenard
#StarTrek 45 (1967) - 10/10
Journey to Babel, written by #DCFontana.
1️⃣ #MarkLenard as Sarek.
2️⃣ ❝We're carrying over one hundred valuable Federation passengers. We're being pursued by an alien ship. We're subject to possible attack. There has been murder and attempted murder on board.❞
3️⃣ The plot has all the ingredients of a very good Trek episode: politics, murder, action, etc. But this is a superb episode because of the way Spock is written, and because of the dilemmas he faces.
#startrek #dcfontana #marklenard
Television script-writer D C Fontana was best known for her writing on the original Star Trek series. She was born this day in 1939. #birthday #quote #DCFontana #startrek
#birthday #quote #dcfontana #startrek
Remembering the Late, Great D.C. Fontana.
#startrek #sciencefiction #cartoon #dcfontana
Gonna do one of those "here is a list of all my general nerdery" toots:
(Part One: Authors)
#MaryShelley
#HGWells
#EdgarAllanPoe
#EdgarRiceBurroughs
#ArthurConanDoyle
#Saki
#MRJames
#JSheridanLeFanu
#IsaacAsimov
#BrianAldiss
#ArthurCClarke
#AlanDeanFoster
#DCFontana
#JamesBlish
#IainBanks
#IainMBanks
#WilliamSBurroughs
#AllenGinsberg
#DianeDuane
#TimothyZhan
#MichaelAMartin
#AndyMangels
#UnaMcCormack
#maryshelley #hgwells #edgarallanpoe #edgarriceburroughs #arthurconandoyle #saki #mrjames #jsheridanlefanu #isaacasimov #brianaldiss #arthurcclarke #alandeanfoster #dcfontana #JamesBlish #iainbanks #iainmbanks #WilliamSBurroughs #allenginsberg #dianeduane #timothyzhan #michaelamartin #andymangels #unamccormack #bookodon #mastodon #booktoot
Saturday Nights on Metv is like visiting old friends . Next up , a visit with the crew of the starship Enterprise and a classic Star trek episode - Journey to Babel . #MetvStarTrek #1960s #MrSpock #Journeytobabel #DCFontana
#metvstartrek #1960s #mrspock #journeytobabel #dcfontana