D.C. Fontana, `Star Trek´ Writer Who Shaped Character Of Spock, Dead At 80
(ArtsJournal)

“Fontana, the first female writer on the show, ... was perhaps second only to Gene Roddenberry, the series’ creator, in molding the sprawling Star Trek story-telling empire. ... [She] wrote or co-wrote some of the most notable episodes of the original series, which ran from 1966 to 1969, and, with Roddenberry, co-wrote the pilot for […]