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... Wikipedia
Born: March 18, 1929, Texarkana, AR
Died: July 8, 2007 (age 78 years), Valley Village, Los Angeles, CA