Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine writer Robert Hewitt Wolfe shared memories of his time on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine including setting up long term storylines, actor influence on storylines and lack of interference by the studio.

The writers of Deep Space Nine had more freedom than they found on some shows due to that lack of studio interference. “On Deep Space Nine, we got virtually no studio notes ever,” said Wolfe. “They largely just let us do what we wanted. Things went very smoothly.”

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine‘s Robert Hewitt Wolfe is developing a new show for Syfy which will be set in space.

The unnamed series, from Universal Cable Productions, will be set on the Starship Defender. “After decades of war, the newly formed Unity Democracy orders a volatile mix of humans and trans-humans to lead the Starship Defender on an expedition in search of lost worlds requiring law and order,” said Syfy.

The new show sounds a bit like Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda, on which Wolfe was an executive producer and head writer for the show’s first two years.