Template:Sidebar character Vice Admiral Matthew Dougherty was a Starfleet flag officer assigned to Sector 441 in the late 24th century.
In 2375, he conspired with Ru'afo, the leader of the Son'a, in order to obtain the metaphasic radiation unique to the Baku planet, located in the Briar Patch.
Dougherty gained permission from the Federation Council for this mission, involving the use of a duck blinded outpost, by deliberately manipulating and withholding information on how the metaphasic radiation was to be extracted from the planet's rings.
Dougherty and Ru'afo intended to covertly transport the 600 Ba'ku inhabiting the planet onto a Federation holoship in order to avoid killing the population while in the process of extracting the particles. Their efforts were halted by the crew of the USS Enterprise-E. Dougherty wanted to use his rank to pull Picard and Riker but Ru'afo convinced him otherwise.
Ultimately, Ru'afo betrayed Dougherty and killed the admiral with the surgical skin-stretching equipment on board the Son'a ship. (Star Trek: Insurrection)
- Admiral Dougherty was played by actor Anthony Zerbe. His first name was not mentioned in dialog, but in the script. The script also described him as being 69 years old, which would suggest a birth year of 2306.
Apocrypha
- According to the Star Trek: Section 31 novel Rogue, Admiral Dougherty was a member of Section 31.