This one is for the BSG nurds….
I’ve been watching Deep Space Nine on DVD starting with Season 1. Yes I know I’m a gluten for punishment. Anyway I’m a nurd… one of the things that I like to do is look up the actors from a series I’m watching and see what is written about them in the IMDB.
So I’m going through the Deep Space Nine entry from the IMDB and they have all of the executive producers listed. One of them is Ronald D. Moore, who we all know is the Executive Producer and Creator of the “New Battlestar Galactica“. But if you’ve watched DS9 before you already knew this (I did). What the hell I will go take a look at Ron Moore’s IMDB entry…
There is a trivia section and it had this comment…
“In the pilot episode of the fifth Star Trek series, “Enterprise”, a character was named after him. The farmer who shot the Klingon (Klaang) in the beginning of the episode was named Farmer “Moore”. This is not only homage to Ron’s reputation with klingons, but also his reputation for killing off characters.“
Well shit that explains a few things.
So of course this leads me to the Wikipedia entry for Ronald D. Moore where I learn that he was a producer on “Voyager” for a little bit in the Sixth season.
And a excerpt from the interview Moore did concerning Voyager after he left
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Moore’s re-imagining of Galactica is noted for taking a more serious tone than its predecessor, something that was foreshadowed in the January 2000 for Cinescape interview, where he discussed what he saw as the root 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.” “
Two things… this is why Ronald D. Moore is the man! And one of my biggest problems with Voyager.
Good night and good luck.