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In college, Ronald Moore’s Captain Kirk dorm room poster prompted teasing, but his passion for the original “Star Trek” has paid off. A few years ago he transformed the sci-fi TV genre when he reimagined the cheesy 1980s “Battlestar Galactica” into a gripping allegory for the War on Terror. Produced by Studio 360’s Eric Molinsky.

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