Real world article
(written from a production point of view)
Mary Black (12 February 1933 – October 2021; age 88) worked on Star Trek: The Original Series as a secretary for John D.F. Black, a writer and executive producer on the series (and Mary's future husband). Mary functioned as an executive assistant to John and typed and analyzed show material as it came in to the studio, the couple married in 1985.
Mary and her husband co-wrote and were the subject of several columns in Star Trek Magazine between 2001 and 2002.
She passed away in October 2021 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California. [1]