Robert Lederman

Real world article

(written from a production point of view)

Lederman directing Jonathan Del Arco in "I Borg".

Lederman directing Michael Corbett and Margaret Reed in "Force of Nature".

Robert "Bob" Lederman is a writer, director, and editor, who worked on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise. In 1990 he received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Editing for a Series – Single Camera Production for his work on the Next Generation third season episode "Deja Q".

Captain Bob Lederman in the Next Generation second season episode "Up The Long Ladder" was named after him. Lederman was interviewed in the The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine issue 23 in 1993, article "Robert Lederman: Teacher of "I, Borg"" by Joe Nazzaro.

Prior to his work on Star Trek, Lederman worked as assistant and apprentice editor on Can't Stop the Music (1980), Popeye (1980, starring Robin Williams), Personal Best (1982), the television drama Deadly Encounter (1982), Flashdance (1983, starring Michael Nouri), and Weeds (1987). As editor he worked on Head Office (1985), Morgan Stewart's Coming Home (1987, starring J.D. Cullum), and MacGyver (1987, starring Richard Dean Anderson, directed by Michael Vejar).

Further credits as editor include Michael and Shawn Piller's The Dead Zone (2002, starring Nicole de Boer) and the short drama Revenge (2006, written and directed by David Livingston and starring John Billingsley, Robert Picardo, and Crystal Allen).

Star Trek credits

(This list is currently incomplete.)

As Director

• TNG:
  • "I Borg"
  • "Force of Nature"

As Writer

• DS9:
  • "Improbable Cause" (story with David R. Long)
  • "The Assignment" (story with David R. Long)
• VOY: "Nightingale" (story with David R. Long)

As Editor

• TNG:
  • "Elementary, Dear Data" (Season 2)
  • "Loud As A Whisper"
  • "The Measure Of A Man"
  • "The Royale"
  • "Pen Pals"
  • "Up The Long Ladder"
  • "Peak Performance"
  • "The Ensigns of Command" (Season 3)
  • "Who Watches The Watchers"
  • "The Enemy"
  • "The Defector"
  • "Deja Q"
  • "The Offspring"
  • "Captain's Holiday"
  • "The Most Toys"
  • "Transfigurations"
  • "Suddenly Human" (Season 4)
  • "Remember Me"
  • "Future Imperfect"
  • "Data's Day"
  • "Clues"
  • "Night Terrors"
  • "The Host"
  • "Redemption"
  • "Redemption II" (Season 5)
  • "Silicon Avatar"
  • "Unification II"
  • "New Ground"
  • "The Masterpiece Society"
  • "Ethics"
  • "The First Duty"
  • "The Inner Light"
  • "Realm Of Fear" (Season 6)
• DS9:
  • "Emissary" (Season 1)
  • "Q-Less"
  • "Move Along Home"
  • "Battle Lines"
  • "If Wishes Were Horses"
  • "Duet"
  • "The Homecoming" (Season 2)
  • "Invasive Procedures"
  • "Sanctuary"
  • "Armageddon Game"
  • "Shadowplay"
  • "Blood Oath"
  • "The Wire"
  • "Tribunal"
  • "The Search, Part II" (Season 3)
  • "Second Skin"
  • "Meridian"
• VOY:
  • "Phage" (Season 1)
  • "Ex Post Facto"
  • "State of Flux"
  • "Faces"
  • "Projections"
  • "The 37's"
  • "Parturition" (Season 2)
  • "Cold Fire"
  • "Prototype"
  • "Threshold"
  • "Investigations"
  • "Innocence"
  • "Resolutions"
  • "False Profits"
  • "The Chute" (Season 3)
  • "Future's End"
  • "The Q and the Grey"
  • "Fair Trade"
  • "Unity"
  • "Scorpion"
  • "In the Flesh" (Season 5)
  • "Timeless"
  • "Counterpoint"
  • "Bride of Chaotica!"
  • "The Disease"
  • "Course: Oblivion"
  • "Someone to Watch Over Me"
  • "Warhead"
  • "Survival Instinct" (Season 6)
  • "Dragon's Teeth"
  • "One Small Step"
  • "Fair Haven"
  • "Virtuoso"
  • "Spirit Folk"
  • "Good Shepherd"
  • "Life Line"
  • "Unimatrix Zero"
  • "Drive" (Season 7)
  • "Body and Soul"
  • "Lineage"
  • "The Void"
  • "Human Error"
  • "Friendship One"
  • "Renaissance Man"
• ENT:
  • "Fight or Flight" (Season 1)
  • "Terra Nova"
  • "Civilization"
  • "Silent Enemy"
  • "Sleeping Dogs"
  • "Rogue Planet"
  • "Detained"
  • "Desert Crossing"
  • "Carbon Creek" (Season 2)
  • "A Night in Sickbay"
  • "The Seventh"
  • "Vanishing Point"
  • "Dawn"
  • "Future Tense"
  • "Judgment"
  • "Cogenitor"
  • "Bounty"
  • "Anomaly (ENT)" (Season 3)
  • "Impulse"
  • "Twilight"
  • "Carpenter Street"
  • "Stratagem"
  • "Hatchery"
  • "The Forgotten"
  • "Countdown"
  • "Storm Front" (Season 4)
  • "Storm Front, Part II"
  • "Borderland"
  • "The Forge"
  • "Daedalus"
  • "United"
  • "Divergence"
  • "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II"
  • "These Are the Voyages..."

External link

• Robert Lederman at the Internet Movie Database