D.C. Fontana's television career began before Star Trek—and reached far beyond it.
This Trek World documentary follows Dorothy Fontana from Western television and production-office work to The Streets of San Francisco, The Waltons, The Fantastic Journey, Logan's Run, animation and Babylon 5. Through interviews, production recollections and institutional records, it explores how she adapted stories to different programs, performers and production demands.
It's also the story of the initials that helped her scripts get read, the professional service that rarely appeared in screen credits, and the encouragement she passed on to new filmmakers.
00:00 A writer before Star Trek
00:37 Learning the television business
02:32 Two initials and a fair reading
03:48 The Lieutenant production office
04:27 Freelancing across familiar television
05:46 A name on the screen, an actor on the page
07:28 Writing beyond the screen
08:08 The Fantastic Journey under pressure
09:04 Logan's Run and the continuing chase
10:20 Animation and another generation
11:35 The collaborative world of Babylon 5
13:26 The outsider's perspective
14:03 Serving the profession
15:20 Treating the next writer as a colleague
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