Excellent (but very old!) Ron Moore interview.

[Maurice]

I just highlighted all the text and copied and pasted it into a document to make it readable.

 

[SPCTRE]

There are also browser addons and extensions designed specifically to make text easy on the eyes and to facilitate reading through longer bodies of text, e-reader style.

I recommend Evernote Clearly.

And thanks to the OP for posting this, it's a great read (once the formatting issues have been resolved). Especially Moore's critique of VOY's main premise.

 

[Salinga]

... and we have an AMA with Moore now on Reddit:

"I'm here at reddit headquarters in New York City to answer as many as I can in the limited time I have. AMA!"

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2c26yi/i_am_ron_d_moore_formerly_of_battlestar_galactica/

 

[t_smitts]

... and we have an AMA with Moore now on Reddit:

"I'm here at reddit headquarters in New York City to answer as many as I can in the limited time I have. AMA!"

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2c26yi/i_am_ron_d_moore_formerly_of_battlestar_galactica/

I was the one who asked him about other actors being considered for roles (I always like hearing stories about the road not traveled, so to speak) and the idea of Brando as Soran blew my mind. That would've been a very different movie!

 

[VST]

Yeah that was a great reveal I've not heard before - would have been a bit hilarious seeing the portly Shatner trying to fight the obese old Brando!

 

[Cyke101]

... and we have an AMA with Moore now on Reddit:

"I'm here at reddit headquarters in New York City to answer as many as I can in the limited time I have. AMA!"

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2c26yi/i_am_ron_d_moore_formerly_of_battlestar_galactica/

I was the one who asked him about other actors being considered for roles (I always like hearing stories about the road not traveled, so to speak) and the idea of Brando as Soran blew my mind. That would've been a very different movie!

Yeah that was a great reveal I've not heard before - would have been a bit hilarious seeing the portly Shatner trying to fight the obese old Brando!

I posted this in Trek Today's article, but consider how much drama there would've been on the set: Brando is notorious for forgetting or not even studying his lines -- so imagine how he'd fare in a TNG movie, which is filled to the brim with technobabble! Much more so than the TOS or Abrams movies.

 

[VST]

Blimey yeah, that would have been painful! They must have considered that when it cropped up.

 

[Salinga]

Berman already talked about Brando in Generations:

I got a call from Marlon Brando's agent saying that he was interested in doing it. It was the biggest thrill of my life. But the studio was not willing to pay the money that Mr. Brando was looking for.

http://www.blastr.com/2011/03/how_tom_hanks_and_marlon.php

 

[TerraNovan]

The most upsetting part was the realization that franchise burnout is a complete myth.

There was no burnout, it was a phase out of talent that killed it all off.

The writing was on the wall for enterprise being a failure as well. you could just tell it wasn't gonna happen.


What grinds me a little, is he pretty much forecasted everything up until now, even the popcorn nature of the recent films.

This question is the what next.

 

[Hober Mallow]

I was the one who asked him about other actors being considered for roles (I always like hearing stories about the road not traveled, so to speak) and the idea of Brando as Soran blew my mind. That would've been a very different movie!

Brando could have played Veridian III.

 

[TerraNovan]

I was the one who asked him about other actors being considered for roles (I always like hearing stories about the road not traveled, so to speak) and the idea of Brando as Soran blew my mind. That would've been a very different movie!

Brando could have played Veridian III.

Id rather see him do kirk

 

[Armored Saint]

The most upsetting part was the realization that franchise burnout is a complete myth.

There was no burnout, it was a phase out of talent that killed it all off.

The writing was on the wall for enterprise being a failure as well. you could just tell it wasn't gonna happen.

Hmm, Ron Moore was clearly saying the franchiese was burning out. It was i
"Now," says Ron Moore about STAR TREK, "you do another series or another movie, the attitude is, ‘Oh God, another one?’ That is wrong. Why feed into that public perception? I just don’t know any reason to do it. It doesn’t even serve Paramount’s long-term financial goals, in my opinion. If the studio really wants this thing to last for another thirty or forty years, they should look down the line further than just next year’s profits.
[...]
"They should take a break and reassess. In my perfect world, they would let the entire franchise lie fallow for five, eight years, a long time. Let it really go away overall. Let VOYAGER run its course. Don’t do another series; don’t do another movie; just let it go quietly away. What you want, more than anything else, I think, is for people to start saying, ‘When are they going to do another STAR TREK? When are we going to get another series? When are they going to do another movie?’
[...]
There has just been too much STAR TREK for a while.

He specifically talked about Voyager problems and he was skeptical about Enteprise that was coming soon at this time, but was also saying that Star Trek saturation were not only bad for the market, but also for the quality.

 

[Hober Mallow]

The whole interview was a bunch of sour grapes... but he was absolutely right.