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"I did three movie novelizations for Star Trek. I also did the first Pocket Books original Star Trek novel, The Entropy Effect. That was written from a teleplay I wrote in 1967. I started writing a screenplay for Star Trek during the first commercial break of the first episode I saw, in September 1966, the week before I went off to college! I watched that show and thought, 'I've never seen anything like this in my life. It's wonderful. I want to write for it.' I actually got a copy of this screenplay to the production offices, and they were reading it when the series was cancelled. I was heartbroken. When Dave Hartwell asked me if I would write a 'Star Trek' novel, I went back to this teleplay, which is surprisingly close to the plot of the novel version. It was like collaborating with myself from the age of 18 vs. the age of 32." -- Vonda N. McIntyre (b. 1948-08-28, d. 2019-04-01), quoted in Locus Magazine, February 1998