D.C. Fontana was a television writer; a trail blazer in the male-dominated era of 1960s Hollywood. She used her initials, D.C., instead of Dorothy Catherine, because male producers would often reject her scripts unread when seeing a woman’s name on the cover. But once she got her foot in the door her work was well-received. She wrote some of the most memorable episodes of Star Trek, including, "This Side of Paradise."
