D. C. Fontana
Dorothy Catherine "D. C." Fontana (born March 25, 1939) is an American television script writer and story editor, best known for her work on the original Star Trek series.
Work with Gene Roddenberry
Originally Gene Roddenberry's secretary, she wrote for Star Trek from the outset, starting with the original TV series from 1966 to the end of its production run. During that time she wrote such episodes as "Tomorrow Is Yesterday", "Friday's Child", "Journey to Babel", "This Side of Paradise", and "The Enterprise Incident".
Under the pen name Michael Richards, Fontana wrote "That Which Survives" and "The Way to Eden", both from the show's third season. In the Season 2 DVD featurette "Writer's Notebook: D.C. Fontana" she stated that her use of the "Michael Richards" pseudonym (a combination of her two brothers' names, Michael and Richard) was "an indication of a script (where) I didn't particularly care for what had been done to it, so I took my name off it."
Fontana also wrote under the name J. Michael Bingham. This pseudonym was used for the story and teleplay credits for "The Naked Now", an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The story credit was shared by John D. F. Black, who had written "The Naked Time", the original series episode to which "Naked Now" was an homage.