Ron Moore open to returning to writing Star Trek...

[eschaton]

Hey all.

I saw this article this morning which has some highlights from a phone interview that Ronald D. Moore had with comicbook.com. The most important section:

Moore also says that he wouldn’t be averse to returning to Star Trek in a less hypothetical scenario, though his current contract with Sony Television means that’s not going to happen anytime soon. “No, I can always see myself going back to it,” he says. “I've been away from it now for quite a while and it could be fun again to do it. It's not something I can do currently. I'm on a deal at Sony Television and my time is kind of tied up, so I couldn't do it. I work for a different company. But yeah, it would be fun to play in that universe again, whether it was on TV or a movie or a book or whatever. It's still something that speaks to a very personal part of me and I don't think I'll ever be really, really done with it.”

Of course this means nothing is going to happen any time soon. Presumably he'd need to wait until For All Mankind is completed or cancelled (it's a Sony show, even if Apple is distributing it). But he's interested in "coming back" again if CBS wants him.

 

[fireproof78]

Let him comeback and do a full reboot.

 

[BillJ]

No thanks. Find him incredibly overrated.

 

[XCV330]

He's done some very good work. I would like to see what a modern Trek episode written by him would be like.

 

[dinzy]

Give him the Pike Miniseries.

 

[Noname Given]

Keep him away. The last thing Starv Trek needs is more Klingons pining about some form of 'Honor'. Let him go write his own series about IKEA furniture and Robots.

 

[Four Lights]

Outlander which he produces is very good, so there is no reason to think him returning would be a bad thing.

 

[Relayer1]

Ron Moore ?

Yes please.

As soon as practically possible...

 

[BillJ]

I want new people, I want people that understand modern drama and streaming. Go chase folks from Westworld, or The Man in the High Castle, or Lost in Space.

I'm tired of just regurgitating what came before.

 

[Danja]

I'm tired of just regurgitating what came before.

We tried that with Voyager's first three seasons (the show faced cancellation after S3).

 

[fireproof78]

I want new people, I want people that understand modern drama and streaming. Go chase folks from Westworld, or The Man in the High Castle, or Lost in Space.

I'm tired of just regurgitating what came before.

Then perhaps Star Trek isn't for you.

 

[Tuskin38]

I want people that understand modern drama and streaming.

He's currently heading a streaming show over on Apple about an alternate timeline Space Race. It's pretty good.

 

[XCV330]

Keep him away. The last thing Starv Trek needs is more Klingons pining about some form of 'Honor'. Let him go write his own series about IKEA furniture and Robots.

i would agree about the Klingon obsession, but I'd like to think that's mostly over. Anyway, he did First Contact, one of the best uses of Worf.

 

[Lord Garth]

I don't know what I'd think about Ron Moore coming back. I'm not saying this to sound coy. I really don't know. I love his work on TNG and DS9. And I love where he started BSG, but I don't like where he took it, even though I understand what he was trying to do. Ultimately, I think he went on a journey from TNG to DS9 to BSG. A first act, a second act, and a third act.

I don't blame the guy for wanting to keep working after his Sony deal ends, and I can see why he'd entertain the idea of going back to Star Trek, and hey, he probably wants to work... sooooooooo... I don't know.

But I do know that when he went to VOY, he told Brannon Braga, "I think we should do this and this and that!" And if Brannon Braga was happy with the way the show was going and UPN was satisfied, then why would they want to change what they were doing? Every story has two sides and we have to look at it from Brannon Braga's point of view too.

I think that Ron Moore would try to muscle his way onto someone like Michelle Paradise or Michael Chabon or whoever else, intentionally or not. And he'd probably view anything other than showrunner status as a demotion. So I don't know how it work out if he wasn't one.

 

[Jayson1]

The guy created Battlestar Galatica. He understands modern tv. He also understands Trek. He would be a perfect fit. Jason

 

[rahullak]

If there are going to be many other Treks (besides even the ones that we know about today), then he could conceivably be writer/showrunner on one of those as yet inconceived Treks. Wouldn't have to muscle out anybody if it's an entirely new Trek project.

 

[somebuddyX]

They should do special event one-off episodes or films and get people like RDM and other writers to do little vignettes. I wish they still had all the Trek sets so you could just do a short film where some random Bajoran and Cardassian team-up to go find a new Orb or something, and all they is use the runabout set and some random hillside. Or a redshirt's stuck on a planet and has to wait around like Castaway, and it's just the Vancouver forest. There's plenty of examples of people making something really interesting out of miniscule budget and just a decent script. and if it sucks, they release another one in a couple of months.

 

[Tenacity]

his current contract with Sony Television

This is the big problem.

The last thing Starv Trek needs is more Klingons pining about some form of 'Honor'.

That's making the assumption that Moore is a one trick pony, he's not.

To be honest, completely eliminating all future references of the Klingons from Star Trek would suit me just fine.

 

[Takeru]

No, thanks.

I think he's a good writer and producer, I loved BSG and Outlander is pretty good but I don't want him or anyone else who worked on Star Trek decades ago back. It didn't work when they had TOS writers on TNG and I doubt it would work now. I want a new and modern take on Star Trek and I think returning writers are likely to be stuck in the past a bit when they return to their old stomping grounds.

And it's not just Star Trek:

Lucas and Spielberg returning to Indiana Jones: Meh
Cameron returning to Terminator: Meh
Ridley Scott returning to Alien: Meh

 

[Lord Garth]

It didn't work when they had TOS writers on TNG and I doubt it would work now.

If we want to be totally fair, that wasn't their fault. It was Leonard Maizlish driving them bonkers and both him and Gene Roddenberry tampering with their scripts. So this is a bad example to prove your point. But, for the rest of it...

And it's not just Star Trek:

Lucas and Spielberg returning to Indiana Jones: Meh
Cameron returning to Terminator: Meh
Ridley Scott returning to Alien: Meh

I like Prometheus a lot but think Alien: Covenent was total shit. And I agree with you about the rest. So, on balance, I agree with you here a lot more than I don't.