{"id":14353,"date":"2019-12-03T11:20:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T19:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=14353"},"modified":"2019-12-12T14:31:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T22:31:14","slug":"rip-d-c-fontana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/03\/rip-d-c-fontana\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP D.C. Fontana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2203,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.startrek.com\\\/news\\\/dc-fontana-1939-2019&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260124025337\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.startrek.com\\\/news\\\/dc-fontana-1939-2019&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 03:15:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 05:34:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 05:34:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Sad news \u2014\u00a0D.C. Fontana, one of the pillars of Star Trek, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startrek.com\/news\/dc-fontana-1939-2019\">has died<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  As a writer, Fontana is credited with many episodes focusing on Vulcan culture and helped blaze a trail for female writers in sci-fi television. She is the mind behind The Original Series and The Animated Series episodes like \u201cYesteryear\u201d and \u201cJourney to Babel,\u201d which introduced Spock\u2019s father Sarek and mother Amanda. She co-wrote the Hugo Award nominated The Next Generation episode \u201cEncounter at Farpoint\u201d with Gene Rodenberry, and she continued to write for TNG and Deep Space Nine. Her last produced credit was an episode of webseries Star Trek: New Voyages, starring Walter Koenig.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ea01cb45eb71434c9a9cf09ecb92088c.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad news \u2014\u00a0D.C. Fontana, one of the pillars of Star Trek, has died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2047],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}