# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jack-b-sowards
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:33:07.155Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jack-b-sowards"
name: "Jack B. Sowards"
slug: "jack-b-sowards"
description: "Jack B. Sowards 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, naming it for his next-door neighbors in Hancock Park."
tagline: "American screenwriter (1929-2007)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-03-18"
deathDate: "2007-07-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.96
  momentum:             1.264705882352941
  historical:           8.547121333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0816348/"
    handle:    "nm0816348"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D8%A8%DB%8C_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%88%D8%B2"
    title: "جیک بی سووارڈز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "چاك بى. سواردس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%DA%A9_%D8%A8%DB%8C.%D8%B3%DB%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B2"
    title: "جاک بی.سۆواردز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_B._Sowards"
    title: "Jack B. Sowards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_B._Sowards"
    title: "Jack B. Sowards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_B._Sowards"
    title: "Jack B. Sowards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_B._Sowards"
    title: "Jack B. Sowards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BBB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA"
    title: "ジャック・B・ソワーズ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Совардс, Джек"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1792"
    title: "Jack B. Sowards"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump