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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.
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Jack B. Sowards was born on 18 March 1929 in Texarkana, Arkansas, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), The Streets of San Francisco (1972) and Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). He died on 8 July 2007 in Valley Village, California, USA.
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Hailing from Texarkana, Arkansas, Sowards enlisted in the US Army following high school and participated in the Berlin Airliftduring Soviet Russia's blockade of Berlin, Germany, in 1949. He later enlisted in the Navy and, three years after that, he began serving in the Air Force as a chief mechanic on F-86 fighter jets. Following his years of milit...
Sowards earned two award nominations for his writing for The Wrath of Khan, his first and only feature film credit.
"Jack Sowards, The Man Who Killed Mr. Spock", Lee Goldberg, Starlog, issue 67, February 1983, pp. 22-25
Jack B. Sowards at WikipediaJack B. Sowards at the Internet Movie DatabaseObituary at AintItCool.comJack B. Sowards was born on March 18, 1929 in Texarkana, Arkansas, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), The Streets of San Francisco (1972) and Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). He died on July 8, 2007 in Valley Village, California, USA.
- March 18, 1929
- July 8, 2007
Jul 8, 2007 · Jack B. Sowards is known as an Writer, Actor, Screenplay, and Story. Some of his work includes Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Streets of San Francisco, T. J. Hooker, B.L. Stryker, Deliver Us from Evil, Cry Panic, and Death Cruise.
Variety reports that film and television writer Jack B. Sowards died of complications of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) and COPD on 8 July 2007. Born 18 March 1929 in Texarkana, Arkansas, he was perhaps best known for his screenplay Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Jul 25, 2007 · Jack B. Sowards, who scripted what many fans consider to be the best “Star Trek” movie, has died at the age of 78. Sowards wrote the screenplay for “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” and also shares “Story by” credit on the movie with Harve Bennett.
