Jean Lisette Aroeste (2 October 1932 – August 2020) was a former

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and ''

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'' fan who became one of four writers with no prior television writing credits (

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, Judy Burns and

Joyce Muskat Joyce Muskat was one of only four writers with no prior television credits able to sell a script to ''Star Trek: The Original Series'' (David Gerrold, Judy Burns, and Jean Lisette Aroeste were the other three). ''Star Trek'' co-producer Robert H. Ju ...

were the other three) to sell scripts to the program. Her first sale, "

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", was an unsolicited script which Star Trek co-producer

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read and recommended to

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.Solow & Justman, op. cit., p.404 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 ''

'' series. These two episodes were her only television sales. She had previously been an acquisitions librarian at the

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; after UCLA, she subsequently was head of References and Collection Development at the

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- collection contains script of the episodes she wrote. {{DEFAULTSORT:Aroeste, Jean Lisette 1932 births Living people Princeton University librarians Harvard University librarians American women librarians American librarians Screenwriters from Virginia Place of birth missing (living people) University of California, Los Angeles staff American women screenwriters 21st-century American women