Gene L. Coon
Screenwriter and producer best known for the original Star Trek.
Gene L. Coon (1924–1973) was an American screenwriter, television producer and novelist. He is best remembered for the original Star Trek, where he was a writer, story editor and showrunner from the middle of the first season to the middle of the second.
Quick Facts
- Pen name
- Lee Cronin
- Birth name
- Eugene Lee Coon
- Born
- 7 January 1924
- Birthplace
- Beatrice, Nebraska, U.S.
- Died
- 8 July 1973
- Place of death
- Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Occupation
- Screenwriter, television producer
- Genre
- Television
- science fiction
- film
- fiction
Facts from the source article.
Background
With creator Gene Roddenberry, he is credited with the show's idealistic tone and with several story and setting ideas that became central to the franchise. No Twilight Zone credit is recorded for him.
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