American theoretical physicist and author who worked as a story editor on the second season of The Next Generation, co-writing The Dauphin, before writing popular science books with Stephen Hawking.
Leonard Mlodinow is an American physicist who left academic research for a period in the 1980s to write for television, with credits on series including MacGyver and Night Court.
He and his writing partner Scott Rubenstein were story editors on Star Trek: The Next Generation for part of its second season. Together they wrote The Dauphin, in which Wesley Crusher falls for Salia, a young head of state who turns out to be a shapeshifter guarded by a fierce protector.
Mlodinow later became a successful science writer. His books include The Drunkard's Walk and two written with Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time and The Grand Design.