Jean Lisette Aroeste [1] (2 October 1932 – August 2020) was an American screenwriter. A librarian at the University of California, Los Angeles, she was a Star Trek fan who became one of four writers with no prior television writing credits ( David Gerrold, Judy Burns and Joyce Muskat were the other three) to sell scripts to the program. [2]
Her first sale, " Is There in Truth No Beauty?", was an unsolicited script which Star Trek co-producer Robert H. Justman read and recommended to Gene Roddenberry. [3] [4] [5] She then sold the story "A Handful of Dust", which was eventually produced as " All Our Yesterdays" – the second-to-last episode of the original Star Trek series. These two episodes were her only television sales.
Aroeste had previously been an acquisitions librarian at the Harvard University Library; after UCLA, she subsequently was head of References and Collection Development at the Princeton University Library.
Aroeste died in August 2020, at the age of 87. [6]
References
- ^ "Summary Bibliography: Jean Lisette Aroeste". www.isfdb.org. Retrieved 2023-12-20.
- ^ Herbert Solow and Robert H. Justman Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, Pocket Books, 1996, p.404
- ^ Solow & Justman, op. cit., p.404
- ^ "Celebrating Star Trek's Women Writers". www.startrek.com. 2023-07-24. Retrieved 2023-12-20.
- ^ "Is There In Truth No Beauty". www.orionpressfanzines.com. Retrieved 2023-12-20.
- ^ "Employee obituaries: September 2020".
External links
- Jean Lisette Aroeste at IMDb
- Jean Lisette Aroeste at Memory Alpha
- UCLA archives - collection contains script of the episodes she wrote.
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Jean Lisette Aroeste [1] (2 October 1932 – August 2020) was an American screenwriter. A librarian at the University of California, Los Angeles, she was a Star Trek fan who became one of four writers with no prior television writing credits ( David Gerrold, Judy Burns and Joyce Muskat were the other three) to sell scripts to the program. [2]
Her first sale, " Is There in Truth No Beauty?", was an unsolicited script which Star Trek co-producer Robert H. Justman read and recommended to Gene Roddenberry. [3] [4] [5] She then sold the story "A Handful of Dust", which was eventually produced as " All Our Yesterdays" – the second-to-last episode of the original Star Trek series. These two episodes were her only television sales.
Aroeste had previously been an acquisitions librarian at the Harvard University Library; after UCLA, she subsequently was head of References and Collection Development at the Princeton University Library.
Aroeste died in August 2020, at the age of 87. [6]
References
- ^ "Summary Bibliography: Jean Lisette Aroeste". www.isfdb.org. Retrieved 2023-12-20.
- ^ Herbert Solow and Robert H. Justman Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, Pocket Books, 1996, p.404
- ^ Solow & Justman, op. cit., p.404
- ^ "Celebrating Star Trek's Women Writers". www.startrek.com. 2023-07-24. Retrieved 2023-12-20.
- ^ "Is There In Truth No Beauty". www.orionpressfanzines.com. Retrieved 2023-12-20.
- ^ "Employee obituaries: September 2020".
External links
- Jean Lisette Aroeste at IMDb
- Jean Lisette Aroeste at Memory Alpha
- UCLA archives - collection contains script of the episodes she wrote.
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