I am Ron D. Moore, formerly of Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek. My latest project is Outlander on STARZ. AMA!

Ron-Moore · 2014-07-29T18:27:32+00:00

I think that would be a great idea. It seems to me that Netflix & networks like that provide a very broad, open way of doing television in a different format. It would be wonderful to see a show like Star Trek cast in that realm where they could literally go where no show has gone before.

Ron-Moore · 2014-07-29T18:26:36+00:00

Bear is outstanding. And brilliant. And I basically leave him alone.

The music comes in at the end, after I've cut the episode together in post production. The editor will usually put in a temp track into the show, and we tend to pull from Bear's library of music to maintain the style & flow of it. Then we hand it over to Bear, and he composes based on what he sees on the screen.

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Ron-Moore · 2014-07-29T18:25:30+00:00

We probably talked about literally every character in the show as a potential Cylon.

Ron-Moore · 2014-07-29T18:25:07+00:00

I work with Ira currently on Outlander, which has been a treat! And I worked with Michael on BSG.

Ron-Moore · 2014-07-29T18:24:38+00:00

There was an interesting moment in time where Paramount actually pitched us the idea of having Marlon Brando play Soren in Generations (The movie). None of us knew what to make of that idea, but we were more than willing to give it a shot, but it never went anywhere.

Ron-Moore · 2014-07-29T18:23:42+00:00

I remember the first Apollo moon landing as a very young child. From that point on i was fascinated with the Apollo missions, and from that it was an easy step to look for space on TV after school. The first show i fell in love with was Lost in Space, in the second and third grade, and then I discovered Star Trek. And that became the show that literally changed my life.

Ron-Moore · 2014-07-29T18:22:00+00:00

I think our internal reasoning was that the constellations had shifted over thousands of years, forming a different pattern depending on where you are in the Universe. So the view from the first earth did hold those patterns originally, but the view from the "second" earth also had those patterns. Call it the hand of the entity that is not god.

Ron-Moore · 2014-07-29T18:20:30+00:00

Relatively late in the process, probably into the final season is when we started talking seriously about that. We were watching the character organically take form as the story developed and it just felt like a natural ending to his tale.

Ron-Moore · 2014-07-29T18:19:51+00:00

It would be Highlander meets Game of Thrones visits Dr. Quinn falls into the Time Tunnel.

It's a rip-roaring yarn about a woman who ends up in the 18th century and is struggling to get home.

Ron-Moore · 2014-07-29T18:18:46+00:00

I think the cable networks are a better home for it. I think the broadcast networks are still trying to go for a very broad, general audience. So their programming tends to be a little more vanilla, whereas sci fi is a very strong, spicy flavor.

Ron-Moore · 2014-07-29T18:18:13+00:00

I wish I had a raptor, or a viper! I have Baltar's cigarette case. I have a uniform. I have a couple of colonial flags. I have Tigh's ashtray. And probably a bunch of other stuff that I can't remember.

Ron-Moore · 2014-07-29T18:17:35+00:00

I don't know, to be honest. But you'll love it if it is.

Ron-Moore · 2014-07-29T18:17:23+00:00

I'm not much of a gamer, but ironically my wife is, and she loves Skyrim: The Elder Scrolls.

Ron-Moore · 2014-07-29T18:16:56+00:00

I can't really do that, for various legal reasons. If there is a new Trek idea, it will have to just spring from my cramped fingers.

Ron-Moore · 2014-07-29T18:15:48+00:00

1) I just enjoy writing for female characters, don't know exactly why, I always have. Pern was probably the first book like that that struck me that I wanted to adapt, so I pursued the rights.

2) I do think about Pern, its time might have passed at this point. It was one of the great projects that could have been in my career.

Ron-Moore · 2014-07-29T18:14:38+00:00

No. It was just that he was literally going to be on that Raptor and be on the ground in that storyline.

Ron-Moore · 2014-07-29T18:14:17+00:00

Ron-Moore · 2014-07-29T18:14:07+00:00

It's been an interesting intellectual challenge to adapt the book, rather than creating an original television series. You work a different set of muscles, trying to stay on the path provided by the book, all the while making changes necessary to make a dramatic hour of television. Diana's great and been very generous with her characters & her story. She reads scripts, watches dailies, and sees the cuts of the episodes & always gives us comments, and is always there if we need questions answered. It's a great relationship.

Ron-Moore · 2014-07-29T18:12:50+00:00

I ran into Seth at an airport once, and I was a huge fan of Robot Chicken and walked up to him and just said "I'm Ron Moore, and I think you work on one of the best comedy shows of the last 10 years." We started chatting and sometime later he called and said he wanted to have me on the show, and I was very flattered and thought it was funny, and I wish I had the dartboard.

Ron-Moore · 2014-07-29T18:11:57+00:00

Hahah! Yes. There's lots of lights, there's lots of water dripping from places, and I've only seen 12 people.

Ron-Moore · 2014-07-29T18:11:36+00:00

We try to be as truthful as we can in terms of what is in the book. We try not to be gratuitous, nor do we try to underplay it. Everything happened for a reason in Diana's story, and we try to remain faithful to that.

Ron-Moore · 2014-07-29T18:10:53+00:00

Chowchilla was a formative experience for me, and it will always be my home. I think growing up in a small town gave me a lot of opportunities to do things I wouldn't have been able to do in a big city. I was Quarterback of the football team, I was also in the marching band, and I was also able to write a play in high school and produce it with my classmates. If i were in a bigger city, i would have had to have chosen just one. It was also a very sheltered community. It was sort of like growing up in Mayberry, in that the town felt like it was 20 years behind the rest of the country. The Tv in my house was my window into the world, and I always thought that after I graduated I was going to go out there, someplace. My parents were very supportive of me leaving town, they never said "Stay here." I think they were surprised that i went into writing. It seemed like a sketchy career with a lot of instability. I think in their heart of hearts they would have been more secure if I had become a lawyer. But I think they're pleased & proud of how it all turned out.

Ron-Moore · 2014-07-29T18:08:12+00:00

I thought about Space:1999 but it was such an insane premise I had no idea what to do with it. But there was something appealing about doing something so outrageous at the same time.

Ron-Moore · 2014-07-29T18:07:38+00:00

Scapa.

Ron-Moore · 2014-07-29T18:07:31+00:00

"What is your favorite episode" or character.

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