American television writer who rose from writers' assistant to co-producer on Star Trek: Voyager, scripting episodes from Vis à Vis to the series finale Endgame, and who later created the detective drama Elementary.
Robert Doherty is an American writer and producer who joined Star Trek: Voyager as a writers' assistant and sold his first script, Vis à Vis, during the fourth season. He was taken on to the writing staff afterwards and stayed until the series ended, finishing as a co-producer.
His Voyager credits include the teleplays for Infinite Regress, Bliss, Riddles and Q2, a shared teleplay for Life Line, and the teleplay of the finale Endgame, written with Kenneth Biller from a story by Rick Berman, Biller and Brannon Braga.
After Voyager he worked on Tru Calling and Medium before creating Elementary, the modern-day Sherlock Holmes series, which he ran for seven seasons.