Smart Pop Classics: I Remember Star Trek…

In the Smart Pop Classics series, we share greatest hits from our throwback essay collections. This week in “I Remember Star Trek…” from Boarding the Enterprise, the late Star Trek writer D. C. Fontana shares some of her memories of working on the show with Gene Roddenberry.

I was there, and it was never dull. Gene Roddenberry usually held the center of events, his inventive mind solving problems and, often, creating mischief. Everyone has heard about the pair of Danish-designed, futuristic-look...