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Gene RoddenberryтАЩs
The Questor Tapes
Written By
D.C. Fontana
Based on the Teleplay by
Gene Roddenberry and Gene L. Coon
Story by Gene Roddenberry




PROJECT QUESTOR
The Making of a Man
The android sat before the mirror in the cos-metology section, studying its own smooth hairless face and
body. The table bore an array of dyes, creams, special heat-molding tools. An image flashed briefly in its
brainтАФa picture of what it should look like. Then the image was gone. Gaps ... too many gaps in
information. Program lacking.
The cosmetology computer keyboard was at the left. The android turned to it and activated it. A schematic
came on as the screen glowed to life. The android studied it, keyed in a new instruction.
The computer completed the run and stopped. The android was motionless for the space of a minute,
analyzing and correlating the information it had absorbed.
Then its eyes flicked down, and it picked up a heat-molding tool . . .


DEDICATION
For Gene L. Coon June 7, 1924тАФJuly 8, 1973
"Gene celebrated life. With honesty, candor, love, generosity, humorтАФyet he delighted in insisting he was a hard-nosed s.o.b. ... He
was an authentic war hero. . . . Yet he was very much against war and killing. So he built an armor around his gentle heart, of
toughness and humor. . . . Any way you looked at Gene, you saw a loving man. He loved his family. . . . He loved people. He loved
reading. He loved writing with a joy I've never seen in another writer. . . . Gene had a literary streak, and so I've adapted an old
Latin verse by the poet Catullus, just for him, for now:
By ways unknown and many mem'ries sped,
Brother, to this moment am I come
That I may celebrate the dead
And speak of peace with your ashes dumb.
Accept my thoughts. Such heirlooms of past years
Are joyous things to grace you where you dwell.
Take them, all drenched with a brother's tears.
And, Gene, my brother, now, hail . . . and farewell."
(Excerpted from eulogy by John J. Furia, Jr., President Writers Guild of America)

A Del Rey Book
Published by Ballantine Books
Copyright ┬й 1974 by Universal City Studios, Inc.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, a divi-sion of Random
House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, Canada.
ISBN 0-345-28024-5
Manufactured in the United States of America
First Edition: October 1974 Second Printing: April 1979
First Canadian Printing: November 1974 Cover art by Dean Ellis