Gene didn�t work on Star Trek alone.

Gene had a lot of close friends who helped him. Bob Justman helped him. There�s a name that has been around for ever because Bob was on other shows with him.

Poor Gene Coon... I think we killed him. He died very, very early as a matter of fact... You�d give him a script overnight and he would bring back a shooting script the next morning. One that we could actually go up on the stage, point the camera, light the lights and say, �roll them�. It was remarkable. I�d say if anybody was really closest to helping him put those out I would say is Gene Coon.

There was a team around him. It was a great big team. Gene didn�t do it all by himself, although for the first two years there wasn�t one single script that got by. That�s why the writers didn�t like him that much, but there wasn�t one script that got by without Gene�s signature all over it.