D. C. Fontana

writer
TV Episode

Star Trek (s01e19)

Tomorrow Is Yesterday

Darn those high-gravity black stars! Always accidentally throwing starships hither and yon through time. Although in this case, the crew of the Enterprise manages to correct all the problems they caused by beaming 1960s Air Force pilot Captain John Christopher on board. —Michael Main
Spock: Fifty years to go. Forty. Thirty.
Kirk: Never mind, Mr. Spock.
Spock: [silence]
A view of the Enterprise above the clouds of 1969 Earth.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Star Trek: The Next Generation (s01e01-02)

Encounter at Farpoint

  • by D. C. Fontana
  • (Paramount Domestic Television, USA, 28 September 1987) [syndicated]
As the new captain of the Enterprise and other new members of his crew become acquainted with their galaxy class starship and its capabilities, they travel to a curious city on Deneb IV and also encounter a powerful  being from the Q who, among other things, exhibits a possible power over time itself. —Michael Main
Troi: Captain, sir, this is not an illusion of a dream.
Picard: But these courts belong in the past.
Troi:I don’t understand either, but this is real.
Patrick Stewart (as Captain Jean-Luc Picard) boldly stands on the bridge of the N C C 1 7 0 1 D.
  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Science Fiction
  • Debatable Time Travel