Kathryn M. Drennan

Template:Short description Template:Distinguish Template:Use mdy dates Kathryn M. Drennan is an American writer, having worked for Carl Sagan on the mini-series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage in the early 1980s<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and for Michael Piller, producer at the time for Star Trek: The Next Generation, in the early 1990s.<ref>Nazzaro, Joe (2002). Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy Television. Titan Books: Template:ISBN.</ref> She also contributed articles to several magazines, including Starlog<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Twilight Zone Magazine.<ref name="TwiZone">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She was married to J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5, and wrote articles about Rod Serling's Night Gallery for Twilight Zone Magazine together with him.<ref name="TwiZone"/> She wrote one script during Babylon 5's first season, "By Any Means Necessary" as well as the prose Babylon 5 novel, To Dream in the City of Sorrows. She also wrote scripts for two other shows Straczynski worked on, She-Ra: Princess of Power and The Real Ghostbusters.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal life

She met J. Michael Straczynski while they were both at San Diego State University. They moved to Los Angeles on April 1, 1981. They married in 1983,<ref>IGN: Interview with J. Michael Straczynski (Part 1 of 4), by Kenneth Plume, September 5, 2000 Template:Webarchive</ref> separated in 2002, and were divorced in 2003.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Selected works

Novels

• Babylon 5 Book #9: To Dream in the City of Sorrows (covering the life of Jeffrey Sinclair from the end of season 1 until his final departure in season 3)

Articles and stories in magazines

• "The Mind Withdrawn", short story published in the Star Trek fanzine, Galactic Discourse #1, Feb 1977.
• "Rod Serling's Night Gallery" w/ J. Michael Straczynski, article in Twilight Zone Magazine, 3 issues, Mar - Aug 1985.
• "A Show by Show Guide to Rod Serling's Night Gallery" w/ J. Michael Straczynski, article in Twilight Zone Magazine, 11 issues, Mar 1985 - Jun 1989.
• "David Opatoshu and A Taste of Armageddon", article in Starlog, Jun 1987.
• "Bill Paxton: The Howling Commando", article in Starlog, Jan 1988.
• "Wil Wheaton: Acting Ensign", article in Starlog, Apr 1988.
• "Jonathan Frakes: One on One", article in Starlog, Jun 1988.
• "The Art of Night Gallery, article in Twilight Zone Magazine, Feb 1989.
• "DeForest Kelley's Medical Plan", article in Starlog, Jun 1989.
• "DeForest Kelley's Western Days", article in Starlog, Jul 1989.
• "A Test of Character", article in Starlog, Dec 1989.

Television credits

• She-Ra: Princess of Power (1985)
  • "The Unicorn King" (ep.36)
• Defenders of the Earth (1986)
  • "The Men of Frost" (ep.16)
• The Real Ghostbusters (1987)
  • "Night Game" (S2 ep.8)
  • "The Man Who Never Reached Home" (S2 ep.27)
  • "Egon’s Dragon" (S2 ep.63)
• Babylon 5 (1994)
  • "By Any Means Necessary" (ep.12)

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