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Posted:
21:27:13 on October 09 2001
By: Lee Jamilkowski
Dept: People
Science Fiction Weekly has posted an interview with Ronald D. Moore, former writer for STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE and STAR TREK: VOYAGER. He discusses his duties writing and serving as co-executive producer on ROSWELL. He also discusses his background and a bit about Star Trek.
What got you into writing science fiction television?
Moore: Star Trek did. I was a Star Trek fan growing up as a kid. I was really into the show. I still have a model of the Enterprise that I built when I was 12 years old. It sits on my shelf. Which, as a side note, ended up in Kirk's quarters in Star Trek six. But I was a big fan of the original series. When I came to Los Angeles I was trying to be a writer, and I started dating this girl who knew I was a fan of the show. She had a connection to Star Trek: The Next Generation. She knew some people over there and said [she could get me] a tour of the sets.
Do you think of yourself as a science fiction writer?
Moore: No, I really don't. Which is the irony of my career. I don't consider myself a science fiction writer. I'm just a writer who keeps getting these jobs in science fiction. This is what I'm known for now, but I'm not a scientist. I have no real background in it. I was the guy at Star Trek who, when I was writing their really technical scenes, filled in a lot of it with just blanks. It was like "Mr. La Forge, tech the tech 15 percent." And Geordi would say, "Captain the tech is overloading." "Well, tech the tech." "Captain, we can't tech the tech anymore or the warp drive will overload." I hated that stuff. I hated it. I was much more interested in what the people were doing. The interesting part of science fiction is that essentially it gives you more colors to paint with on the palette.
You can read the full interview at http://www.scifi.com/sfw/advance/08_interview.html
