Ronald D. Moore Biography

Fast Facts

• Became a huge fan of Star Trek as a kid during the 1970s; he watched the reruns, read its novelizations and even built an Enterprise model
• Watched the original Battlestar Galactica as a kid; later, he masterminded its successful remake
• Played quarterback on his high-school football team
• Received a Navy ROTC scholarship to Cornell University, but dropped out during his senior year
• Sold his first script to Star Trek: Next Generation by slipping it to an assistant of Gene Roddenberry's during a tour of the set
• The assistant read it, liked it and recommended it to an agent, who in turn submitted it through the proper channels---only to have it ignored
• Seven months later, an executive producer read it, liked it and bought it
• Sold a second script to Next Generation, then joined the show's writing staff on a week-to-week contract
• A few months later, he was given an actual contract and made story editor
• Received death threats for killing Capt
• Kirk in the movie Star Trek: Generations, which he cowrote