Ronald D. Moore (born 1964 in Chowchilla, California) is a television producer who is currently executive producer of the new Battlestar Galactica series.

Moore graduated with a B.A. in Political science from Cornell University. Originally he was on a Navy ROTC scholarship, but failed his senior year, losing his scholarship and had to start over.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

In 1988 he managed to arrange a tour of the Star Trek: The Next Generation sets through his girlfriend. While on the tour, he passed a script to one of Gene Roddenberry's assistants, who liked the script enough to help him get an agent who submitted the script through the proper channels. About seven months later executive producer Michael Piller read the script, bought it and it became the third season episode The Bonding . Based on that script he was offered the opportunity to write a second script and that led to a staff position as a script editor. Two years later he was promoted to co-producer, then producer for the series final year (1994).

During his time on The Next Generation, he was credited with writing or co-writing 27 episodes. A number of times he co-wrote episodes with Brannon Braga, developing a successful working relationship that lead to them being offered the chance to write the series television finale, All Good Things..., and the Next Generation crew's first big screen appearance, Star Trek: Generations. For the All Good Things . . . script they won a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Moore then joined the production staff of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine for its third season as a supervising producer, being promoted to a co-executive producer position for the series final two years. During this time he also worked again with Braga on the script for the second Next Generation motion picture, Star Trek: First Contact and on a draft of the Mission: Impossible II script that was re-written by Robert Towne for which they received a Story By credit.

Moore proved to be one of DS9's more popular writers. He was also popular among fans because of the frequent internet postings where he would answers fans questions or address their concerns about the show, a practice he has continued with Battlestar Galactica on his weblog.

Star Trek: Voyager

With the end of Deep Space Nine in 1999, Moore transferred over to the production staff of Star Trek: Voyager where his writing partner Braga was executive producer. However Moore left Voyager only a matter of weeks after joining the staff citing problems in his working relationship with Braga:

"I have very hurt feelings about Brannon. What happened between he and I is just between he and I. It was a breakdown of trust. I would have quit any show where I was not allowed to participate in the process like that. I wasn’t allowed to participate in the process, and I wasn’t part of the show. I felt like I was freelancing my own show. ... I was very disappointed that my long-time friend and writing partner acted in that manner, that crossed lines to the point where I felt like I had to walk away from STAR TREK, which was something that meant a lot to me for a very long time, from my childhood right through my entire professional career."

Since he left Voyager, Moore has often been thought of by many fans as a possible successor to head the Trek franchise.

Roswell

After leaving Voyager Moore briefly worked as a consulting producer on Good vs Evil before joining the production staff of Roswell at the start of its second series. Moore replaced Roswell creator, Jason Katims, for the series third and final year.

Battlestar Galactica

At the end of 2002, Moore was given the job of bringing Battlestar Galactica back onto the air. The ratings for the mini-series were good enough that a series was commissioned, debuting in October 2004 in the United Kingdom and in January 2005 in the United States.

Moore's re-imagining of Galactica is noted for taking a more serious tone than its predecessor, something that was fore-shadowed in a January 2000 interview for Cinescape magazine, where he discussed what he saw as the root problem with Voyager. [1]

"The premise has a lot of possibilities. Before it aired, I was at a convention in Pasadena, and Sternbach and Okuda were on stage, and they were answering questions from the audience about the new ship. It was all very technical, and they were talking about the fact that in the premise this ship was going to have problems. It wasn’t going to have unlimited sources of energy. It wasn’t going to have all the doodads of the Enterprise. It was going to be rougher, fending for themselves more, having to trade to get supplies that they want. That didn’t happen. It doesn’t happen at all, and it’s a lie to the audience. I think the audience intuitively knows when something is true and something is not true. Voyager is not true. If it were true, the ship would not look spick-and-span every week, after all these battles it goes through. How many times has the bridge been destroyed? How many shuttlecrafts have vanished, and another one just comes out of the oven? That kind of bullshitting the audience I think takes its toll. At some point the audience stops taking it seriously, because they know that this is not really the way this would happen. These people wouldn’t act like this."

Personal life

Moore is married, and has a son.

External links

• Ronald D. Moore - profile on IMDB
• Ronald D. Moore - profile on tvtome.com
• Ronald D. Moore - profile on www.startrek.com
• Battlestar Galactica Blog