If it was fake, he would ask for the interview to be removed or he could sue, the interview is very real and I've seen other statements he made that aren't to far from those outbursts. In R Moore's Battlestar podcasts he admitted he sometimes drinks substantial quantities of scotch and absinthe. There is no excuse for the bad stuff he said about the Trek people but perhaps the interviewer caught him at a time when his blood alcohol levels were quiet high which made Ron ever more expressive, loud and egotistical.
Was Ron moore trek's greatest writer
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If it was fake, he would ask for the interview to be removed or he could sue, the interview is very real and I've seen other statements he made that aren't to far from those outbursts. In R Moore's Battlestar podcasts he admitted he sometimes drinks substantial quantities of scotch and absinthe. There is no excuse for the bad stuff he said about the Trek people but perhaps the interviewer caught him at a time when his blood alcohol levels were quiet high which made Ron ever more expressive, loud and egotistical.
Ron Moore was not Star Trek's greatest writer. Not even close. I was never really much of a fan of his work when it came to those oafish Klingons, neither on "The Next Generation" nor on "Deep Space Nine."
Jeri Taylor, on the otherhand, who gave women more roles and responsibilities outside of the traditional nurturing roles on her shows such as Crusher captaining a ship in that one Borg episode, and Troi achieving the rank of Commander to seeeing a Captain Kathryn Janeway command her own intrepid ship USS Voyager, she had a lot more to contribute and gave women a different perspective in viewing their favorite characters on the shows, rather than your traditional, male chauvenistic portrayal of female characters such as Leela the Dabo Girl, and such nonsense.
Jeri Taylor, on the otherhand, who gave women more roles and responsibilities outside of the traditional nurturing roles on her shows such as Crusher captaining a ship in that one Borg episode, and Troi achieving the rank of Commander to seeeing a Captain Kathryn Janeway command her own intrepid ship USS Voyager, she had a lot more to contribute and gave women a different perspective in viewing their favorite characters on the shows, rather than your traditional, male chauvenistic portrayal of female characters such as Leela the Dabo Girl, and such nonsense.
"Carnivale" is one of the greatest shows I have ever seen - go take a look and say that Moore got no talent!
Carnivale was ok, it had great potential but was not very well executed, I was not to keen on the cast either, Clancy Brown, Michael J. Anderson and Clea DuVall were great but the rest were underperformers as they mostly looked like a badly cobbled-together impersonations of a Depression-era traveling carnies. The best thing about the show was a few good performances and the opening credits. Ron Moore didn't have much to do it this show, it was all Daniel Knauf and maybe inspired by Bergquist's work. Funny thing is rather than being grateful I remember Ron Moore shooting his mouth off about Knauf a few times.
I was not impressed with Moore's contributions to Roswell. He took over as showrunner after its first season. Roswell was a show with an interesting premise and a good cast, but it was on somewhat shaky ground when Moore arrived. It really need an experienced person to put everything on an even keel, but Moore seems to have seen it as a blank slate with which he could indulge himself with his trademark "dark" stuff, without much regard for the show's established characters and audience.
For example, in one of the last episodes of the series, he has one main character (a sympathetic one) go on a murderous rampage, without much of a reason. By the next episode, he's fine. Moore basically trashed the character so he could write what he thought of as a cool episode.
I've thought about seeing Carnavale but since I already know Armageddon didn't take place in the Thirties, it doesn't seem urgent.
Moore does seem to have some strange ideas about mental illness. Waltz, Touching Evil, Gaius Baltar.
His main claim to infamy is still modern Klingons.
And his personal is still irrelevant to rating his writing ability, for good or ill. (Some people think he personally is great.)
Moore does seem to have some strange ideas about mental illness. Waltz, Touching Evil, Gaius Baltar.
His main claim to infamy is still modern Klingons.
And his personal is still irrelevant to rating his writing ability, for good or ill. (Some people think he personally is great.)
It has been posted online a few times, if you dig around you can find it online in one of the archives on the trek websites
How much have you watched?!
GREAT played characters:
Samson
Justin
Hawkins
Lodz
Iris
Stumpy
Sofie
And most of the others are great, too!
Aside from The Sopranos it is IMO the greatest cast I've ever seen in a Show.
Moore SAID in an Interview that he was Showrunner in the first Season.
He is credited as writer in 2 Episodes and as Executive Producer in the whole first season.
I think If you like David Lynch (Twin Peaks, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire) or HBO (The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood, Rome, Six Feet Under, Oz) than you will love "Carnivale" if you give it enough of a chance.
At play.com (worldwide free shipping) the RC2 PAL DVD sets of Carnivale are available for 36€/23£!
The RC1 DVD sets of Carnivale are also cheaper than usual at Amazon.com (55$)!
Amazon.co.uk is even cheaper (without shipping cost):
Season 1 18£/26,50€
Season 2 23£/34,50€
Both Seasons (1+2) 44£/65€ (including shipping)
!only Season 2 alone is cheaper at play.com - both seasons or season 1 is cheaper at Amazon.co.uk!
For all of Moore's positives both on a personal level (from what's said about him, anyway) and on a professional level, the guy likes to talk about himself. And the shows that he has worked on, and himself. And he (very irritatingly) took at least one stab at Star Trek on virtually every podcast on the season 1 BSG DVD. Oh and he also liked to talk about himself too, and what he changed, and how it's better, and he made sure to remind me over and over again.
He's very, very often insightful in his interviews and podcasts, but there's also a substantial amount of hot-air with it. He kind of comes across to me as the type that wears his emotions on his sleeves, so it doesn't suprise me one bit that he'd publicly take a stab at his former co-workers.
Define stab? He spoke the truth. It wasn't a stab. He pretty much told it how it was and how Trek is different to BSG. Considering how long he has worked on Star Trek it's not hard to see why he would talk about it and his work on both sci-fi shows.
For example? What did he like to talk about himself?
You never talk about yourself?
It sure as hell doesn't look like he took much from TOS besides the concept. Unlike some hack film makers who remake films scene for scene.
I don't like to say who the 'greatest' is but he is without a doubt ONE of the greatest trek writers.
All one has to do is look at the amount he has written and compare it to one's personal favourites and there are many.
Also he has a great range of stories from Waltz, Yesterday's Enterprise and Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges et al. to the likes of our man bashir and take me out to the holosuite.
All one has to do is look at the amount he has written and compare it to one's personal favourites and there are many.
Also he has a great range of stories from Waltz, Yesterday's Enterprise and Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges et al. to the likes of our man bashir and take me out to the holosuite.
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