Susan Sackett

Susan Sackett ( born December 18, 1943 in New York City, New York) is an American author who is known for their involvement in the Star Trek franchise.

Life

Sackett was born in New York City, grew up in Connecticut and went to the conclusion of Hillhouse High School in New Haven to Florida. There she received at the University of Florida in Gainesville in 1964 her Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Education in 1965. Having taught in Miami for two years at an elementary school, she went to Los Angeles. There they practiced their profession for a short time further out, announced him, and moved into the entertainment industry, where she worked for four years for the National Broadcasting Company.

From 1974, she worked with Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, and together was in 1988 in the episode The Neutral Zone of Star Trek: The Next Generation to see. Up to Roddenberry's death in 1991 she was 17 years his personal executive assistant. She was also a production assistant for the first Star Trek movie and worked on the next five Star Trek films closely with Roddenberry. In addition, she was production assistant during the first five seasons of the series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Sackett and her writing partner Fred Bronson worked together on the scripts of the episodes The ladies Troi (1990) and The Game (1991 ) Star Trek: The Next Generation with. Also she wrote during her time as Roddenberry's assistant three books on Star Trek: Letters to Star Trek (1977 ) Star Trek Speaks! (1979) and The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1980, with Gene Roddenberry ). Another book, Star Trek: The First 25 Years ( 1991), with Gene Roddenberry as a co -author, was bought by Pocket Books, but not published because of legal entanglements of the publisher. Instead, it was the basis for the 1994 published book Star Trek: " Where No One Has Gone Before ": A History in Pictures by JM Dillard. 1993 published Billboard Books Sacketts book prime time hits, followed in 1995 Hollywood Sings! . In 2002, she was controversial book Inside Trek: My Secret Life with Star Trek Creator Gene Roddenberry published, which tells of her one and a half decades of romantic and intimate relationship with their mentor.

She is also the author of other books that are also connected to the film and television industry, such as You Can Be a Game Show Contestant and Win! (1982, co-author Cheryl Blythe ). Your own instructions, following which she wrote down in this book, Sackett played in the television quiz show Jeopardy! with and won $ 10,000. Together with Blythe Sackett was also co -author of the book published in 1986 Say Goodnight, Gracie! - The Story of Burns and Allen.

From 2000 to 2010 Sackett was president of the Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix.

• Letters to Star Trek ( Ballantine Books, 1977)
• Star Trek Speaks! ( with Fred and Stan Goldstein, Pocket Books, 1979)
• The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture ( with Gene Roddenberry, Pocket Books, 1980)
• You Can Be a Game Show Contestant and Win! ( with Cheryl Blythe, Dell Books, 1982 )
• Say Goodnight, Gracie! - The Story of Burns and Allen, ( with Cheryl Blythe, EP Dutton, 1986); Paperback edition ( Prima Books, 1989 )
• The Hollywood Reporter Book of Box Office Hits ( Billboard Books, 1990 )
• Star Trek: The First 25 Years (with Gene Roddenberry, purchased by Pocket Books but not published, 1991)
• Prime - Time Hits ( Billboard Books, 1993 )
• Hollywood Sings! , ( Marcia Rovins, Billboard Books, 1995 )
• Inside Trek: My Secret Life with Star Trek Creator Gene Roddenberry, ( Hawk Publishing Group 2002)