Jack B. Sowards
Jack B. Sowards | |
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| Born | March 18, 1929 Texarkana, Arkansas |
| Died | July 8, 2007 Valley Village, California |
| Occupation | television writer, screenwriter, producer |
| Alma mater | University of Texas, Austin |
| Children | 3 |
Jack B. Sowards (March 18, 1929 - July 8, 2007) was an American screenwriter who wrote Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and the 1988 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Where Silence Has Lease". Sowards created the term Kobayashi Maru (a simulation test in The Wrath of Khan), naming it for his next-door neighbors in Hancock Park.[1]
A native of
Deliver Us From Evil (1973 film) with George Kennedy, Jan Michael Vincent, and Jack Weston, Cry Panic with John Forsythe and Anne Francis, and Death Cruise with Richard Long, Kate Jackson, and Tom Bosley. His long career with Quinn Martin Productions resulted in several episodes of The Streets of San Francisco and Barnaby Jones
. He served as the Executive Story Consultant for multiple seasons in the mid-70s.
Sowards died in the
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
.
References
- ^ The Man Who Saved Mr. Spock
- Internet Movie Database. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
External links
- Jack B. Sowards at IMDb
- Jack B. Sowards at Memory Alpha
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