Star Trek's most revered writer and Hollywood trailblazer D.C. Fontana has passed away

Star Trek family has lost one of its most revered writers, Dorothy Fontana. She passed away this week at her home in Los Angeles. D.C. Fontana has played a huge role in Star Trek franchise by being a teacher and mentor for young screenwriters, and a trailblazer for women in Hollywood. Dorothy is real brain behind introduction of Spock's parents and many explorations of Vulcan culture. writer always had a thing for content since she was a child and her passion made her pursue take up a professional job in TV industry. Read more to kw about Dorothy Fontana’s contribution to Star Trek franchise. 

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D.C. Fontana's contribution to Star Trek franchise

Dorothy co-wrote Next Generation pilot episode, Encounter at Farpoint with franchise creator Gene Roddenberry. She was also interested in contributing to gaming sector of Star Trek by taking up a number of writing and story roles for Star Trek video games. After trying her hand in gaming, she went on work on animated parts of franchise including Next Generation, Deep Nine. 

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D.C. Fontana's struggle

Dorothy spoke to a news website back in 2013 and shared that were very few women working in action/adventure or speculative fiction genres during her career’s initial sts. She added that re were t many women working as writers in industry and usually women in  industry used to work on soap operas or variety shows, but even in those cases y faced frequent discrimination. writer said that current scenario is t same anymore. 

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