Summary
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 edit
- ^ "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 edit
- Jean Lisette Aroeste at IMDb
- Jean Lisette Aroeste at Memory Alpha
- UCLA archives - collection contains script of the episodes she wrote.