Excellent (but very old!) Ron Moore interview.

[steven87gill]

See here. Great expansive & brutally honest discussion on all things trek.

Obviously some of this is somewhat unreliable as this was a long time ago, but if anything it makes it more interesting to see the contrast of then & now, for example, note how praising of Generations he is here, but then check out the DVD commentary he did with with Brannon Braga a few years later

Hindsight is a wonderful thing sometimes!

 

[KaineMorrison]

Thanks for linking that!
Though I gave up reading it early.
It was a poorly structured wall of text and I kept getting lost in it.

What year was that from, I didn't see a date.
Has he since said what caused him to leave during Voyager?

 

[urbandefault]

I read that years ago, but I'm sure many here haven't. Thanks for posting.

It would be interesting to do a follow-up interview based on that one, to see if time has changed his perspective.

 

[steven87gill]

The interview is from 2000 I think.

Good lord, fourteen years!

 

[publiusr]

Doesn't seem real...

 

[TheAdmiralty]

Ronald D Moore's Voyager might've been a pretty good show......

 

[bbailey861]

Thanks for linking that!
Though I gave up reading it early.

Me, too. It was brutal on the eyes.

 

[wulfio]

Ronald D Moore's Voyager might've been a pretty good show......

I remember reading somewhere that BSG is what he wanted Voyager to be.

 

[Cyke101]

Eeek, formatting problems! It's denser than a Q-field

Ronald D Moore's Voyager might've been a pretty good show......

I remember reading somewhere that BSG is what he wanted Voyager to be.

Yep. Some of the inspiration came from Year of Hell and how that was originally supposed to be a seasonal arc, not a two-parter with a reset button.

To clarify, though, he's also said that even if he wanted Voyager to be grittier, dirtier, riskier, and with more realistic characterization, he'd still have to keep traditional and iconic elements of Star Trek in there to retain its identity, so we'd still have phasers, warp drive, shields, and transporters, for example.

 

[DS9forever]

I doubt he would have had any luck changing Voyager in its second season, let alone the sixth when he joined it.

 

[Melakon]

I was hoping this was going to be about Ronald B. Moore.

 

[KaineMorrison]

I was hoping this was going to be about Ronald B. Moore.

 

[Melakon]

I was hoping this was going to be about Ronald B. Moore.

Well, that's because I care more about his opinions than the other guy's.

 

[KaineMorrison]

I was hoping this was going to be about Ronald B. Moore.

Well, that's because I care more about his opinions than the other guy's.

Wait, Is there rally a Ronald B. Moore as well as a Ronald D. Moore working on Star Trek?

I thought that that was a typo on the HoloDeck panel!

 

[t_smitts]

Ronald B Moore was a VFX supervisor on TNG, Voyager, and Enterprise. He's also a guitar player in Vaughn Armstrong's "Enterprise Blues" band.

 

[KaineMorrison]

Ronald B Moore was a VFX supervisor on TNG, Voyager, and Enterprise. He's also a guitar player in Vaughn Armstrong's "Enterprise Blues" band.

Wow. Learn something new everyday...
That's funny...
Now all that they need is:
Ronald A. Moore
Ronald C. Moore
Ronald E. Moore

and they will match the Enterprises...

 

[VST]

Have to say, Ron Moore was SO right about Voyager here it's almost painful to read. So very, sadly, tragically right.

Great interview, just horrendously formatted.

 

[Poltargyst]

Yeah, Voyager is my least favorite of all the Star Trek series, but I could never quite articulate why, but Moore does a very good job here.

 

[Mareika]

Thank you so much for the link. I was looking for it for a long time.
I very like Voyager. It`s my fav series, but mostly because of the characters/acters. So it`s a bit sad to read his critics- but he`s absolutely right. But on the other hand it`s interesting to hear his opinion about the cast.

Moore does have praise for some things about VOYAGER, however."STAR TREK looks fantastic. It is one of the best-produced shows on television, and it is certainly the cream of the crop when it comes to science fiction. Nothing looks like it; nothing comes close to sounding like it. The visual effects are just stellar, top-notch. The sets look fabulous. The costumes are always lush and big and beautiful. You can make arguments on creative decisions, but technically, the way the show is actually produced and put on the air is stellar.
It’s a big, beautiful show that isn’t doing anything with all this beauty. It goes for the actors as well. I’ve maintained from day one that the VOYAGER cast overall was probably the best cast of all of them. You really had a strong group of players that could really take the show someplace. I loved the other two casts that I worked with, but I looked at the VOYAGER cast and thought, ‘These group of players all really like each other, and they are all going to have fun together on the set. They are all willing to try anything that you give to them.’ I found that in the brief time I was working with them, too; they will do anything for you. They work very hard; they take a lot of pride in their craft. Do something with them! It’s just such a wasted opportunity. It angers me because of the waste of it all.

 

[Armored Saint]

Pretty interesting too read, but I hate that kind of "interview" when it's a monologue with some lines of "context" from the interviewer. They should simply keep Moore's word and wrote a small introduction.

This site made me realize I didn't miss those flash website. It's not only hard for the eyes, it's noisy as hell.