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Peter Allan Fields
Peter Allan Fields
Born	May 12, 1935
Died	19 June 2019 (aged 84)
Occupations	screenwriter; producer;
Years active	1965–1999
Awards	Hugo Award

Peter Allan Fields (May 12, 1935 – June 19, 2019) was a screenwriter and producer, best known for many episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Fields wrote some of the most acclaimed episodes of both series including "The Inner Light" for The Next Generation along with "Duet" and "In the Pale Moonlight" for Deep Space Nine.^[1] He also wrote for The Six Million Dollar Man, including the episode "The Seven Million Dollar Man" (1974).

Early life

Before becoming a screenwriter Fields worked as a lawyer while writing short stories in his free time, eventually two law clients told him of a new show seeking writers, namely The Man from U.N.C.L.E., which set his Hollywood career in motion.^[2]

In a Twitter thread honoring Fields after his death fellow Star Trek screenwriter Robert Hewitt Wolfe relayed an unconfirmed story that Fields had lied about his age to join the US Marine Corps at 16 during the Korean War fighting at the Battle of Inchon after which he was captured and spent several months as a POW before being released because of his age. He returned to the US only to be drafted into the US Army at age 18 and supposedly sent back to Korea where he fought at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. After his service he then used the GI Bill to study at the University of Southern California. Wolfe said of the account "So what is true about him and what is a story? I certainly don’t know."^[3]

Television Career

After working as a lawyer Fields broke into Hollywood as a screenwriter working on the spy series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. for which he wrote 11 episodes. Over the next three and half decades he would write for shows such as The Rat Patrol, McCloud, The Six Million Dollar Man, Executive Suite, The Eddie Capra Mysteries, Knight Rider, Jake and the Fatman, and Xena: Warrior Princess.^[4]^[5]

Beginning in 1991 Fields began working as a writer on Star Trek: The Next Generation writing three episodes including the season five episode "The Inner Light" which won the 1993 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.^[6] Fields served as co-producer and later producer on the first two seasons of Deep Space Nine and wrote a total of ten episodes across the series including the acclaimed episodes "Duet" and "In the Pale Moonlight".^[7]^[8]