03 Picard/
Kamin in “The
Inner Light,”
one of Peter
Allan Fields’- and Trek’s –
finest episodes.
04 Keith
Birdsong’s
cover art for the
ST:TNG novel
Metamorphosis.
05 Animation
cel from “The
Lorelei Signal.”
06 Greg
Hildebrandt’s
Star Trek: Year
Five cover art.
07 Richard
Moore interior
illustration
from Mission
to Horatius.
Science fi ction author and multiple
Star Trek novelist Vonda N.
McIntyre passed away on April 1,
2019, succumbing to pancreatic
cancer. She was 70.
McIntyre was
a leading fi gure in
the new wave of
female SF authors
that broke through
in the early 1970s,
publishing her
fi rst novel, Th e
Exile Waiting, in- She won
both the Nebula
and Hugo Awards
for her second,
1978’s Dreamsnake,
making her only the
second woman to
win a Nebula, and
the third to win a
Hugo at the time.
In 1981
McIntyre published her fi rst Star Trek
novel, Th e Entropy Eff ect, which grew
out of an unproduced screenplay
McIntyre had submitted to the show
when she was 18. Th e book gave Sulu
his fi rst name, Hikaru, something
that subsequently became canon
in Star Trek VI: Th e Undiscovered
Country. In addition, in her later
Tr e k novel, 1986’s New York Times
bestseller Enterprise:
Th e First Adventure,
McIntyre gave James
T. Kirk’s mother the
name Winona.
Besides her two
original Tr e k novels,
McIntyre wrote the
novelizations of Star
Trek II: Th e Wrath of
Khan, Star Trek III:
Th e Search for Spock,
and Star Trek IV: Th e
Voyage Home.
On Twitter,
Star Trek novelist
James Swallow
commented: “A
great shame to hear
about the passing of
Vonda McIntyre; her Star Trek novel
Th e Entropy Eff ect was the fi rst non-
novelization tie-in I ever read
and it was a great inspiration to
a younger me.”Writer and producer Peter Allan
Fields passed away on June 19,
2019, aged 84.
Fields wrote or co-wrote some of
Star Trek: Th e Next Generation and Star
Trek: Deep Space Nine’s most iconic
episodes. Among his 13 credits for the
two shows are Th e Next Generation’s
“Half a Life” and “Th e Inner Light,” and
Deep Space Nine’s “Duet,” “In the Pale
Moonlight,” and “Th e Dogs of War.”
A lawyer before he became a
professional writer, Fields wrote short
stories in his spare time. In the mid-
1960s he was informed by two of his
clients that Th e Man from U.N.C.L.E.
was seeking writers, and from 1965
to 1966, he wrote nearly a dozen
episodes for the show. He went on
to write for McCloud (where he also
took the role of associate producer),Th e Six Million Dollar Man, Th e Man
from Atlantis, Knight Rider, and Xena:
Warrior Princess, among many other
TV shows.
As well as writing or co-writing
10 episodes of Deep Space Nine,
Fields served as producer of that show
from 1993 to 1994. On Twitter,
DS9 showrunner Ira Steven Behr
commented: “Sad to report writer/
producer Peter Allan Fields passed
away today. He was a friend of mine.
All you Star Trek fans can say a prayer.
All you fans of ’60s and ’70s television
can say one too.”
Added DS9 writer Robert Hewitt
Wolfe: “Peter Allan Fields was a
storyteller and a great one... He
created raktajino. Latinum? Th at was
Pete. He was an integral part of the
birth of DS9.”VONDAVONDA N.N.
MCINTYREMCINTYRE
PETERPETER ALLAN FIELDSALLAN FIELDS
1948–
1935–
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