Robert Hewitt Wolfe Robert Hewitt Wolfe is a writer of many " Star Trek " episodes . His first episode was the " " episode , which helped him get a job as a writer on . Biography . Robert Hewitt Wolfe was born in in . 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 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 " . 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 in the seventh season . He appeared in the fifth season episode as a wounded Starfleet officer boarding the . 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 television series , which they based on the by . Wolfe served as both executive producer and writer on the series , which aired prior to Ronald D . Moore ' s 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 ' invasion of 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 . Wolfe is now a producer and writer on " Elementary " .