Ronald D. Moore
Ronald Dowl Moore (born July 5, 1964 in Chowchilla , California , USA ) is an American film and television producer , screenwriter and actor .
Ronald D. Moore has worked on many film and television projects, including Star Trek: Gathering of Generations , Star Trek: First Contact, and Mission: Impossible II . He is the producer and developer of the very successful US television series Battlestar Galactica (2003) and was also on other series such as Roswell (1999), Starship Enterprise - The Next Century , Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), Star Trek: Raumschiff Voyager (1995) and Carnivàle (2003) involved.
Life
Moore spent his childhood in Chowchilla . His father was a teacher. After high school, Moore began studying political science at Cornell University . Moore initially held a US Navy scholarship . However, after losing interest, he dropped out of college. He served on the frigate USS WS Sims for one summer .
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Starship Enterprise: The Next Century
In 1988, Moore attended the sets of the science fiction series Spaceship Enterprise - The Next Century . He managed to send one of his scripts to an assistant of Gene Roddenberry . He helped Moore to get this script through to the right places through an agent. About seven months later, producer Michael Piller read the script, bought it and used it to produce the episode The Bonding (broadcast in Germany under the title Mutterliebe ), which became part of the third season. Moore was hired to write another script that earned him a job as a story editor . Two years later he became co-producer, then producer for the final season (1994).
Moore developed a reputation among screenwriters as the expert on Klingons as he drafted a few episodes detailing the Klingon race and culture. These include Sins of the Father , which describes the Klingon homeworld and political system of the Klingons, as well as Reunion ( Deadly Succession ), Redemption ( The Battle for the Klingon Empire ), Ethics ( The Operation ) and Rightful Heir ( The Rightful Heir ) Inheritance ).
During his tenure on The Next Century , Moore wrote 27 episodes, some as a co-author. He worked several times with Brannon Braga , which worked so well that both of them were allowed to write the final double episode Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow . She won a Hugo Award in 1995 and was nominated for an Emmy .
Moore and Braga also wrote the scripts for the two films Star Trek: Gathering of Generations and Star Trek: First Contact .
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Moore joined the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine production staff for season three after The Next Century ended . Here he worked first as a supervising producer, for the last two years of the series as a co-executive producer. During this time he was again working with Braga on a script for a new Star Trek movie, Star Trek: First Contact . His script for Mission: Impossible II , which was also created during this time, was revised by Robert Towne , but Moore was mentioned in the credits.
During Moore's tenure on Deep Space Nine , Moore continued to write episodes dealing with Klingon culture. These included The House of Quark , The Sons of Mogh , The Skirmish , Dangerous Liaisons , Martok's Honor , Klingon Tradition and The Dahar Master . He also worked on episodes dealing with controversial topics such as genetic engineering ( Dr. Bashir's secret as lead author) or same-sex love . The episode showing the first same-sex kiss on Star Trek ( Reunited ) was co-written by Moore. With The Spark of Life Moore let the popular character of Bareil Antos die while he was working on a peace treaty.
During his time at Deep Space Nine , Moore also tried to communicate more intensively with fans of the series: he regularly posted on forums and discussed with viewers, a practice that he maintained at Battlestar Galactica with weblogs and podcasts .
Star Trek: Voyager
With the end of Deep Space Nine in 1999, Moore moved to the team on the Star Trek: Voyager series , which was about to begin filming the sixth season. Only a few weeks later, however, Moore left the production team again, his only contributions were the episodes of Survival Instinct and The Bark of the Dead . Moore had a direction in mind for the development of the series plot that was rejected by most of the other participants and also discussed controversially by the fans. In 2013 he stated in a retrospective interview that his plans at the time could not have been realized within the framework of Star Trek :
“The truth was, it was still Star Trek , and I think there were things I wanted to do with Voyager that I could never really accomplish. I couldn't do those things until I went to Battlestar . […] I don't know that I really could have done that at Star Trek , […] because the show was not designed to tell that kind of story and it really would have flown in the face of a lot of things Gene [ Roddenberry] had set up and that he had said were important to him. So I think I probably had somewhat unrealistic goals of where I wanted to go [with Voyager ], but then I found an opportunity to do them on Battlestar . "
“The truth is, it was still Star Trek , and I think there were things I wanted to do with Voyager that I could never really achieve. I couldn't do these things until I went to Battlestar . [...] I know I really couldn't have done that on Star Trek [...] because the show wasn't made to tell that kind of story and it would really have come into conflict with a lot of things, the genes [Roddenberry] that he said was important to him. So I think I probably had a bit unrealistic goals of where I was going [with Voyager ], but then I found the opportunity to make them a reality at Battlestar . "
In January 2000, Moore said in an interview with Cinescape magazine that, in this context, it was mainly personal differences with Brannon Braga that led to his early departure:
“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. "
“I have hurt feelings about Brannon. What happened between him and me was just between him and me. Our trust in each other was totally gone. I would have left any show that I wasn't allowed to work on that way. I wasn't really allowed to participate in development, and I wasn't part of the series. I felt like I was working on my own series all by myself ... I was very disappointed that my longtime friend and writing partner acted this way, it crossed a line to the point where I felt that I was had to get away from Star Trek , which has meant a lot to me for a long time, from my childhood through my entire professional life. "
After spaceship Voyager was finished, Moore and Braga were reconciled. Together they can be heard on the commentaries for Star Trek: Generations Meetings and Star Trek: First Contact .
After Star Trek : Good vs. Evil , Roswell , and others
After Moore left spacecraft Voyager , he worked briefly as a consulting producer on the series Good vs. Evil , before co-executive producing and writing on the Roswell series . Moore worked here from 2000 to 2002 and thus produced seasons 2 and 3. Together with Jason Katims , he managed the production until the finale. At Roswell , among other things, the episodes questions about questions , death at midnight and the series finale The Farewell (with Katims) come from his pen.
During this time Moore developed a pilot film for the network The WB , which was based on the Drachenreiter-von-Pern cycle by Anne McCaffrey . However, work on this project was halted due to a disagreement between Moore and The WB. The WB tried to change the plot so that it no longer looked like the original story. Moore, a fan of the books, declined to continue working on the pilot. He then gave the rights to the series back to Anne McCaffrey.
In 2002, David Eick Moore suggested directing a four hour miniseries titled Battlestar Galactica for Universal Studios . Moore had already played in Good vs. Evil worked with Eick. Moore developed the miniseries with Eick, wrote the scripts and planned a backstory that would become a series if the miniseries were to become a success. At the same time, HBO proposed to Moore to direct a series called Carnivàle , but then hired Henry Bromell as a producer and offered Moore a position as an advisory screenwriter. Moore accepted the position, but when Bromell left the series shortly after production started, Moore became executive producer. While Moore was with Carnivàle for the first year , Eick organized the shooting of the Galactica miniseries in Canada .
Battlestar Galactica , which aired with record ratings in 2003, was the highest-rated series on Syfy for all of 2003 and the best mini-series on cable television. After Carnivàle had finished the first season and Syfy ordered a season of 13 episodes of Battlestar Galactica , Moore left Carnivàle to work as a producer at Galactica .
Battlestar Galactica
Battlestar Galactica launched as a weekly series in October 2004 in the United Kingdom and in January 2005 in the United States, following the mini-series as a "pilot film" .
In contrast to the original series from 1978, Moore's film adaptation of the material looked much more realistic and down-to-earth. In January 2000, in an interview with Cinescape , Moore mentioned what he believed was the basic problem with Voyager :
“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 spic-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. "
“The subject has a lot of possibilities. Before it aired, I was at a fan meeting in Pasadena, where Sternbach and Okuda were on stage, answering questions from fans about the new ship. It was all very technical, and they talked about the fact that this ship could be expected to have problems. It would not have an inexhaustible source of energy. It wouldn't have all of the things the Enterprise has. It would get tougher, you have to fend for yourself and negotiate supplies you need. That didn't happen. It didn't happen at all and that's a lie to the audience. I think the audience subliminally notices when something is true and when something is not true. Voyager is not true. If it were true, the ship wouldn't look tip-top every week after all the battles it had to fight. How many times has the bridge been destroyed? How many tenders have disappeared and a new one is simply pulled out of the oven? This way of kidding the audience takes its toll I think. At some point the audience stops taking all of this seriously because they know that this is not how it works. People wouldn't behave like that. "
Moore wrote the first two episodes of the new series himself, of which the episode called 33 Minutes won the Hugo Award in 2005 for “Best Dramatic Presentation”. It was the second Hugo that Moore received in his career. In 2007 Moore was nominated again for an Emmy , this time for the episodes Occupation and Am Abgrund , which together ushered in the third season.
After the success of Battlestar Galactica the Sci-Fi Channel announced in April 2006 that Moore and David Eick an offshoot called Caprica would produce and the scriptwriter of the series 24 , Remi Aubuchon , will also be one of the party. Set about 50 years before Battlestar Galactica, the series is about the creation of the Cylons.
The pilot from Caprica ran in January 2009 on Syfy and the series was discontinued in 2010 after just one season.
After Battlestar Galactica
Moore worked on the script for a remake of the film The Thing from Another World by John Carpenter from 1982, which was however rewritten in 2009 by Eric Heisserer. Production began in March 2010 and was released in October 2011.
Moore was involved in the scriptwriters' strike in 2007, which also came from Battlestar Galactica . The reason was that Battlestar Galactica , like Lost and Heroes for example , makes a relatively large proportion of its revenue from DVD sales and broadcasts over the Internet. However, these sales did not count towards the audience. However, screenwriters often receive a bonus for high ratings, so Moore and his colleagues earned a lower income. One of the aims of the strikes was to reward high online audience figures.
The strike interrupted filming of the series' fourth season. During the strike, Moore found it inappropriate to communicate with his fans on a blog made available by the Sci-Fi Channel. Moore therefore used a private blog, which he continued after the end of the strike.
In 2009, Moore was working on a new project called Virtuality . A pilot film was produced, but the FOX network did not order any further episodes. The pilot was shown as a feature film.
Since 2014 Moore has been the producer of the science fiction series Outlander , which he helped develop and which is based on a series of novels by Diana Gabaldon . He was also an executive producer on Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams in 2017 and 2018 . In 2019, the series For All Mankind , which he helped develop and produce, began broadcasting .
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- 1994 nomination for Starship Enterprise - The Next Century
- 2007 nomination for the Battlestar Galactica episodes Occupation and On the Abyss
- 1995 Hugo Award for Spaceship Enterprise - The Next Century , episode Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
- 2005 Hugo Award for Battlestar Galactica , episode 33 minutes
- 2005 Peabody Award for Battlestar Galactica
Web links
- Ronald D. Moore in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ronald D. Moore on memory-alpha.org (English)
- Ronald D. Moore's official homepage, with his blog
- Ronald D. Moore on TV.com (English)
- Ronald D. Moore at www.startrek.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Podcast: The Captain's Hand . battlestarwiki.org. Archived from the original on February 6, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ^ Ronald D. Moore: Ronald D. Moore Q&A Archive . TrekWeb.com. Archived from the original on December 19, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ↑ You Ask The Q's, Ronald D. Moore Answers, Part 2 . StarTrek.com. April 03, 2013. Retrieved April 7, 2013.
- ↑ Anna L. Kaplan: STAR TREK Profile: Fan-Writer-Producer Ronald D. Moore Part 1 . Mania.com. January 18, 2000. Archived from the original on December 19, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ↑ Anna L. Kaplan: STAR TREK: Ronald D. Moore, Part II . Mania.com. January 19, 2000. Archived from the original on December 19, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ↑ Hugo Awards by Year . 2005. Archived from the original on January 23, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ^ John Kubicek: Emmys Finally Notice 'Battlestar Galactica' . In: BuddyTV . July 19, 2007. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ↑ Caprica. SCI FI Wire, accessed December 18, 2013 .
- ↑ Battlestar Galactica: Ronald Moore talks about Earth ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The Thing Prequel Starts Shooting in March . In: ShockTilYouDrop . CraveOnline. January 3, 2010. Archived from the original on January 5, 2010. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 4, 2010.
- ↑ Goldman, Eric; "Battlestar Galactica Producer Talks Strike" ; tv.ign.com; November 7, 2007
- ^ "BSG creator gets new pilot" at: tv.com from April 14, 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moore, Ronald D. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moore, Ronald Dowl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film and television producer, screenwriter, and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th July 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chowchilla , California , USA |