In addition to being brought in to score – and create new themes for – STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (1982) on the heels on Jerry Goldsmith’s stellar work on the first feature, legendary composer James Horner was also a longtime friend of the American Film Institute – scoring thesis projects on behalf...

Earlier this week, the AFI Conservatory lost a dedicated faculty member and Hollywood lost a trailblazing writer with the passing of D.C. Fontana. She was the first female writer for STAR TREK and wrote 11 episodes of the original series, which ran for three seasons from 1966-69. She co-wrote the pilot for STAR TREK: THE…