Aha Moment: Ronald D. Moore on ‘Star Trek’
Executive producer Ronald Moore participates in the Starz “Outlander” panel at the Television Critics Association (TCA) Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, California January 9, 2015.
In college, Ronald Moore’s Captain Kirk dorm room poster prompted teasing, but his passion for the original Star Trek has paid off. He became a staff writer for “Star Trek: Next Generation” and ended up doing the unthinkable when he co-wrote the movie, “Star Trek: Generations.”
“In that movie, we killed Captain Kirk,” Moore says, “I literally killed my childhood hero.”
Moore went on to transform the sci-fi TV genre when he reimagined the cheesy 1980s “Battlestar Galactica” into a gripping allegory for the war on terror.
(Originally aired September 17, 2010)
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