Andromeda and Other Later Work
In the period that followed his departure from Deep Space Nine, Wolfe made several attempts at writing television pilots. One of these, Futuresport, was produced as an ABC TV movie starring Dean Cain and Wesley Snipes. He has also written several (unproduced) features, including Splicers for 20th Century Fox and Zero Gee for John Woo and Terrance Chang's Lion Rock Productions.
In 1999, working from notes by Gene Roddenberry, Wolfe developed the syndicated series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda. The series premiered in the fall of 2000 as the number one original hour in syndication, a position it held for most of its five-year run. Wolfe served as head writer and executive producer on Andromeda for its first two seasons, during which the series was nominated for two Saturn Award for Best Syndicated Series and for a BC Film Commission Leo Award for Best Dramatic Series. Wolfe resigned as head writer of Andromeda in the fall of 2001, when he allegedly refused to reduce the show's complex plots and ensemble cast to a focus on the heroics of the main character.
Subsequently, Wolfe wrote freelance scripts for both The Dead Zone and UPN's revival of The Twilight Zone. In 2004, he served as a consulting producer and writer on the first and fourth seasons of The 4400 on USA Network, helping launch the successful series.
Wolfe was an executive producer on the Sci Fi Channel series The Dresden Files, along with David Simkins, Nicolas Cage and others. It is a production of Lions Gate Television and Saturn Films. It premiered on January 21, 2007 on the Sci-Fi Channel. Wolfe and Hans Beimler wrote the screenplay for the pilot and developed the series, which is based on the books by Jim Butcher.
He is an executive producer on the SyFy series Alphas which premiered in 2011.
He is developing a series titled Defender from Universal Cable Productions, set on the Starship Defender. The project has gained ground after the pickup of the series by NBC.
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