Robert Hewitt Wolfe

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Robert Hewitt Wolfe (2002)

Robert Hewitt Wolfe (born 28 October 1964; age 59) is a writer of many Star Trek episodes. His first episode was the Next Generation episode "A Fistful of Datas", which helped him get a job as a writer on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Biography

Robert Hewitt Wolfe was born in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1964. His father was a career officer in the United States Army and his mother was a nurse. The family moved around the United States to where Wolfe's father was assigned. They stopped moving in the 1970s and settled in San Francisco.

Wolfe later attended UCLA where he earned a bachelor's degree in Film and Television and a Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting in the late 1980s.

Work on Star Trek

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...as a science officer

After leaving UCLA, Wolfe spent five years attempting to find a writing job. The sale of "A Fistful of Datas" boosted his standing and he was asked to become a member of Deep Space Nine's writing staff soon after.

Wolfe spent the next five years on DS9, writing mostly with Ira Steven Behr. He left the show at the end of its fifth year, although he wrote "Field of Fire" in the seventh season. He appeared in the fifth season episode "Call to Arms" as a wounded Starfleet officer boarding the USS Defiant.

Wolfe also wrote the novel Legends of the Ferengi with Behr.

After Trek

Soon after leaving DS9, Wolfe developed the series Andromeda based on material Gene Roddenberry had developed several decades earlier. He worked as both executive producer and head writer on the series. He left Andromeda at the end of its second season, due to creative differences between him and the studio and network over the focus on Kevin Sorbo's character. Wolfe wanted other characters to be focused on as well.

Wolfe later worked with several of his fellow DS9 writers, most often for shows Ira Steven Behr worked on. He wrote The Twilight Zone episode "Upgrade" and The Dead Zone episode "Descent" in this period.

He later joined Behr again as a consulting producer and writer on The 4400, scripting Season 1's "Trial by Fire." He left the show after helping to guide it through its first season, then returned to work on the final season and write the episode "Till We Have Built Jerusalem."

The Dresden Files

In 2006, Wolfe and Hans Beimler began developing The Dresden Files television series, which they based on the novels by Jim Butcher. Wolfe served as both executive producer and writer on the series, which aired prior to Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica on the Sci-Fi Channel.

Like he was during Deep Space Nine's run, Wolfe was active on various Dresden Files Internet message boards, discussing the series with viewers. In an interview, Wolfe said that he would've liked to do twenty-six episodes a season like DS9 did, but that "You get a little more time to breathe, afterwards, even though the intensity is same when you're actually doing it. You get a month or two off, instead of just two weeks for Christmas and three weeks for the summer, like we did on Deep Space Nine".

The Dresden Files was not renewed for a second season, although fans campaigned to get it brought back. Wolfe later returned to "The 4400" as consulting producer from the 5th episode of Season 4 until the show's demise at the end of that season. He also wrote an episode for the show that year, entitled "Till We Have Built Jerusalem."

Other works

Wolfe and Beimler were also developing a television series called Scarlett, which focused on a horror writer who moves to a mansion in New Orleans and finds her characters come to life. Unfortunately, the series seems to not have been picked up by the Lifetime network.

Additionally, the pair wrote a script called The Serpent and the Eagle which focuses on Hernán Cortés' invasion of Mexico and his war against the Aztecs. The script was optioned by Imagine Entertainment, but has not yet been produced.

With Beimler, and then later on his own, Wolfe worked on several drafts of the 2010 Syfy channel miniseries adaptation of "Riverworld." In 2010 he was working as a consulting producer on the ABC summer series "The Gates" for which he wrote two episodes, episode 7 "Digging the Dirt" and episode 10 "Little Girl Lost." Since then (2011) he's working on the Syfy series Alpha for which he wrote three episodes and also serves as a co-executive producer once again together with his old writing partner Ira Steven Behr.

Writing credits

• TNG:
  • "A Fistful of Datas"
• DS9:
  • "Q-Less" (teleplay only) (Season 1)
  • "The Passenger" (teleplay only, with others)
  • "In the Hands of the Prophets"
  • "Invasive Procedures" (teleplay only, with John Whelpley) (Season 2)
  • "Second Sight" (teleplay only, with several others)
  • "Shadowplay"
  • "The Wire"
  • "The Collaborator" (teleplay only, with Ira Steven Behr and Gary Holland)
  • "The Search, Part I" (story only, with Ira Steven Behr) (Season 3)
  • "The Search, Part II" (story only, with Ira Steven Behr)
  • "Second Skin"
  • "Past Tense, Part I" (story with Ira Steven Behr, teleplay)
  • "Past Tense, Part II" (story only, with Ira Steven Behr)
  • "Heart of Stone" (with Ira Steven Behr)
  • "Prophet Motive" (with Ira Steven Behr)
  • "Distant Voices" (teleplay only, with Ira Steven Behr)
  • "Through the Looking Glass" (with Ira Steven Behr)
  • "Family Business" (with Ira Steven Behr)
  • "The Adversary" (with Ira Steven Behr)
  • "The Way of the Warrior" (with Ira Steven Behr) (Season 4)
  • "Little Green Men" (teleplay only, with Ira Steven Behr)
  • "Homefront" (with Ira Steven Behr)
  • "Paradise Lost" (teleplay only, with Ira Steven Behr)
  • "Bar Association" (teleplay only, With Ira Steven Behr)
  • "Hard Time" (teleplay Only)
  • "To the Death" (with Ira Steven Behr)
  • "Broken Link" (teleplay only, with Ira Steven Behr)
  • "Apocalypse Rising" (with Ira Steven Behr) (Season 5)
  • "Trials and Tribble-ations" (story with Ira Steven Behr and Hans Beimler)
  • "Let He Who Is Without Sin..." (with Ira Steven Behr)
  • "The Ascent" (with Ira Steven Behr)
  • "In Purgatory's Shadow" (with Ira Steven Behr)
  • "By Inferno's Light" (with Ira Steven Behr)
  • "Ties of Blood and Water" (teleplay only)
  • "Blaze of Glory" (with Ira Steven Behr)
  • "Call to Arms" (with Ira Steven Behr)
  • "Field of Fire" (Season 7)

Novels

• DS9 Legends of the Ferengi with Ira Steven Behr

External links

• RobertHWolfe.com - official site
• Robert Hewitt Wolfe at Wikipedia
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• Interview at MediaBlvd.com
• Robert Hewitt Wolfe at SF-Encyclopedia.com