Jon Povill

American screenwriter

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Jon Povill

Born|  (1946-08-29) August 29, 1946 (age 78)
Occupations|

* Scriptwriter
* television producer

Jon Povill (born August 29, 1946) is an American scriptwriter and television producer. He wrote the first two drafts of the screenplay for Total Recall in the 1970s, and then took up a position on the attempted Star Trek: Phase II, becoming story editor, and penning the episode "The Child", which would later be remade as a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. He was ultimately credited as associate producer on Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

He worked as a script consultant and producer on Sliders (writing the episodes "Luck of the Draw", "El Sid" and "Obsession") and penned an episode of The Outer Limits in 1998.

## Filmography

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Year  | Title  | Credited as  | Notes

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Film
1979  | Star Trek: The Motion Picture | Associate producer  |
1990  | Total Recall | Story  |
2012  | Total Recall | Story  |
2017  | Fatal Rhapsody | Script consultant  | Short film
TBA  | Meridiem | Supervising writer
Consulting producer  |
Television and web
1981  | A Step in Time | Screenwriter  | TV Movie
1988  | Star Trek: The Next Generation | Screenwriter in episode 'The Child'  |
1995-1996  | Sliders | Screenwriter in 3 episodes
Executive script consultant in 8 episodes
Producer in 13 episodes  |
1998  | The Outer Limits | Story in episode 'In the Zone'  |
1999  | Total Recall 2070 | Source material in 22 episodes  |
2012  | Star Trek: New Voyages | Director and screenwriter in episode 'The Child'  | Fan-series
2014  | The Nature of Things | Story editor in episode 'How to Be a Wild Elephant'  | Documentary series
2015  | Diabolical Women | Producer in 3 episodes  |

## External links

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* Jon Povill at IMDb
* Interview with Jon Povill at Earth Prime

Authority control databases

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* VIAF
* WorldCat

National|

* United States
* France
* BnF data
* Czech Republic
* Poland
* Israel

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* IdRef
* SNAC

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