Disco Writer used the N word in the writers room.

[Jayson1]

With the current load of baboons in charge, the lower your mark in gender studies, the more attractive you are as a hire.

He will be gone soon. Even if he wins he will be lucky not to have a heart attack within the next 5 years with his age and health. The true new big evil is the tech companies. They control the news you see,have all our private data, not loyal to country since their reach is the entire world. Will do business with dictators and the corporations are bigger than the people who run it. People can come and go but Google is forever. Jason

 

[Guy Gardener]

That's always been true.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

He will be gone soon. Even if he wins he will be lucky not to have a heart attack within the next 5 years with his age and health. Jason

You need to think about what you're posting.

 

[fireproof78]

I had never even heard of that. With the computer stuff I just assumed it would tracking or recovering old tweets or emails or even pics. Almost got James Gunn with a sexy Halloween pics I think it was. We know yearbooks are fair game. Soon report cards will be fair game. Only a c in their gender studies class. Oviously a bad person. Want to have a opinon on science,government etc lets see those scores. Think abortion should be legal! Well we found this quack doctor that says no. Before you answer were is your medical degree! Jason

Computers are very much a duel edged sword. As one IT guy I knew stated "nothing is every truly deleted." With the right know how you can often times recover documents thought lost. Keystroke logging is an old hacker's trick of getting passwords, as well as the surveillance of key words discussed via phone lines.

Yeah, it's super off topic. But, technology is not always our friend.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Contrast with BSG: that show was birthed entirely as a money grab to capture the last fleeting gasp that the original held with fandom. However, they hired RDM fresh off a disappointing stint at VOY and the man had something to say.

I believe that this is inaccurate in multiple aspects.

First of all, Moore left VOY in 1999, and he was not approached by David Eick regarding BSG until 2002. RDM worked on several other projects in the interim, including an adaptation of Dragonriders of Pern.

Secondly, where are you getting the idea that nuBSG was "birthed entirely as a money grab"? AFAIK, it was always going to be a mini-series that might become successful enough to lead to series. Ergo, no ticket sales, ergo no money grabbed from the pockets of fans.

Third, it would have been obvious at the start that attempting to target exclusively fans of the original series would have resulted in a product without a broad enough appeal to have a chance of success. Both Eick and Moore were smart enough to have known from the get-go that they would have to update/reimagine BSG to attract a broader, contemporary audience. The fact that that's what they shamelessly did indicates that not limiting their scope to something that would appeal to fans of the original was their plan all along.

They had a plan.

Spoiler

That plan.

Etc.

 

[The Doctor]

Sure. But also RDM has explictly stated that BSG was a reaction to the missed potential of VOY.

But whatever floats yer boat.

 

[Jedman67]

Sure. But also RDM has explictly stated that BSG was a reaction to the missed potential of VOY.

But whatever floats yer boat.

The two are not contradictory.
Ron Moore's series bible for BSG shows a drive towards reinventing the "space opera" genre altogether; at the time BSG first aired, DS9 and Lexx had wrapped, Stargate SG1 and Atlantis were on TV, Firefly had just gotten the axe...
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-original-battlestar-galactica-series-bible-is-ron-m-5743142

To say that he hoped to realize some of Voyagers missed potential is fair; to say that BSG was created as a "protest" of Voyagers missed potential is a pretty stupid thing to say.

 

[WinterSoldier]

Very odd. Honestly going to assume there's more than this to the story. I bet someone in that writing room doesn't like him very much, and I can't help but think Mosley wasn't really interested in continuing on with the series any (maybe looking for an excuse to leave) authors are typically not the best people to have on a writing team, they kinda want to stick to their own vision.
I'd really like to believe the writing room is more mature than this and able to have a discussion about when is/isn't the appropriate time to use a slur. I've been in collaborative writing groups before and it's not that difficult to navigate.
There probably are other motivating factors.

 

[Ovation]

If its not political, relevant to a specific demo, and isn't woke, it won't get written as a DISCO episode. Bottom line, all writers should go through sensitivity training, and curb their intellectual creativity, and conform to the PC ideology being driven, because coming up with a good story is secondary to the message, and limited direction that the series must remain on. Continuity is no longer a concern, not that it was Really originally. Now they are free of canon to write, but the other stipulations that limit creativity still must be adhered to. Can't write a strong male leading role, because thats forbidden. All female roles must be over the top, and show up the male counterpart at every turn. ( To include being killed off by an asteroid in mid toxic male speak sentence) Toxic masculinity must be displayed and also shamed for it within the character's world. CGI must be at movie level. Lots of explosions. Action, and minimal story that is coherent. Season wide arcs must conclude with lots of plot holes. Subvert expectations at any opportunity, take a cue from Rian Johnson, he's got a billion dollar hit, regardless of the "so called" tiny vocal minority.
Remember while in the writers room, you must be watched and speech (regardless of intent) will be scrutinized at all times. Write on...

Yawn.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Sure. But also RDM has explictly stated that BSG was a reaction to the missed potential of VOY.

But whatever floats yer boat.

If by "missed potential" you mean how they stuffed Ron into a carpet bag, and threw him in a river?

 

[thribs]

Naggers?

 

[Guy Gardener]

You need to think about what you're posting.

He'll be unlucky to live?

 

[thribs]

Just read the story. Seems a bit silly to fire him over that but if he’s responsible for some of the writing of season 2, it’s probably for the better.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Just read the story. Seems a bit silly to fire him over that but if he’s responsible for some of the writing of season 2, it’s probably for the better.

It seems like Walter was brought in recently for season 3, and was only on the job for 3 weeks.

It's unlikely that he was the primary on any completed scripts.

 

[Tuskin38]

Just read the story. Seems a bit silly to fire him over that but if he’s responsible for some of the writing of season 2, it’s probably for the better.

Did you actually read the article? Because he wasn't fired, he quit.

And you can easily find out who wrote what in Season 2, that's public information.

 

[DonIago]

Did you actually read the article? Because he wasn't fired, he quit.

And you can easily find out who wrote what in Season 2, that's public information.

Well, it's more accurate to say you can find out who was credited...but otherwise, yup.

 

[The Doctor]

To say that he hoped to realize some of Voyagers missed potential is fair; to say that BSG was created as a "protest" of Voyagers missed potential is a pretty stupid thing to say.

Well then I guess it’s pretty lucky that I didn’t say that. But please do go one having arguments with someone else. It’s amusing.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

It seems like Walter was brought in recently for season 3, and was only on the job for 3 weeks.

It's unlikely that he was the primary on any completed scripts.

Actually, he might have been there only to work on one script for a story that he submitted. That might account for a good chunk of his time.

 

[Tuskin38]

Well then I guess it’s pretty lucky that I didn’t say that.

This part of your post could be interpreted as such:

But also RDM has explictly stated that BSG was a reaction to the missed potential of VOY.

 

[Lord Garth]

Ron Moore saw Battlestar Galactica as a chance to do what he couldn't do in 10 years of working on Star Trek. I think he wanted to push what he already did on DS9 further. There's also some "Here's what I would've done if I'd been in charge of Voyager!" And part of it was probably showing B&B the type of show he could put together.

But, at the same time, part of why David Eick brought Ron Moore on board was Ron Moore was someone who knew Star Trek inside out, and could help them to make sure BSG didn't cover the same ground.

I had the entirety of BSG on DVD (before I sold the DVD sets years later). I watched all the DVD Commentaries by Ron Moore. And read interviews during the '00s. He saw his experience with TNG as high school, his experience with DS9 as college, and his experience with BSG as his graduate work. So his Battlestar Galactica experience, to a large extent, is an outgrowth from and a reaction to his experiences on Star Trek.