Jean Lisette Aroeste


Jean Lisette Aroeste was an American screenwriter. A librarian at the University of California, Los Angeles, she was a Star Trek fan who became one of four writers with no prior television writing credits to sell scripts to the program.

Career

Her first sale, "Is There in Truth No Beauty?", was an unsolicited script which Star Trek co-producer Robert H. Justman read and recommended to Gene Roddenberry. 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 Star Trek series. These two episodes were her only television sales.
Aroeste had previously been an acquisitions librarian at the Harvard University Library; after UCLA, she subsequently was head of References and Collection Development at the Princeton University Library.
Aroeste died in August 2020, at the age of 87.

Family

Jean Lisette Aroeste was born Jean Lisette Buck, the daughter of Charles Buck and Katherine Buck. She married Henry Aroeste in 1967, and they divorced in 1978.