Ronald Dowl Moore (born July 5, 1964) is an American screenwriter and television producer best known for his work on Star Trek and the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica miniseries and television series, for which he served as developer, writer, and executive producer, and awarded him a Peabody Award for creative excellence in 2005.
Raised in Chowchilla, California as the son of a teacher and school superintendent who moonlighted as a football coac...
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Ronald Dowl Moore (born July 5, 1964) is an American screenwriter and television producer best known for his work on Star Trek and the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica miniseries and television series, for which he served as developer, writer, and executive producer, and awarded him a Peabody Award for creative excellence in 2005.
Raised in Chowchilla, California as the son of a teacher and school superintendent who moonlighted as a football coach, Moore dabbled in writing and drama in high school. He went on to study Government at Cornell University, where he was Secretary of The Kappa Alpha Society, originally on a Navy ROTC scholarship, but failed his senior year after losing interest in his studies. He was then disqualified from Navy service due to a high school knee injury. He did serve for one summer on the frigate USS W. S. Sims. He describes himself as a 'recovering Catholic' and is currently agnostic.
In 1988, he managed to arrange a tour of the Star Trek: The Next Generation...
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