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Ronald D. Moore on Voyager, Deep Space Nine, Galactica and Caprica

By GustavoLeao / 16:19, 7 January 2009 / General Genre/SciFi

CinemaBlend posted a new interview with Battlestar Galactica producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick and here are few excerpts.

What's in the future for both of you? And what's the latest on Caprica?

Ron Moore: Well I think we both have various projects under way. Caprica has been picked up for a full season. We start shooting that probably in July. We're putting the writing staff together now and the crew. And, just staffing up and getting ready to go. We'll start breaking stories probably in February or maybe even as soon as the end of this month, kind of depending when all the pieces go together. We have a game plan of sort of what the general story line is and sort of some direction. So we're not starting completely from scratch.

So things are well in hand. In Caprica we feel really good about that. And beyond that, you know, there's, I've got some future things in development and sort of waiting to see what will happen with Virtuality which is a pilot at Fox.

David Eick: Nothing really, I'm going to shoot some pool. Try to do a lot of drinking. No, there's a lot, as I said, we both have deals at Universal. So there's a pretty active development slate for both of us in terms of pilots. There are two at NBC right now that I have that are in serious contention and, you know, various and sundry things elsewhere. So it's an act of time. But I think our focus, our most primary focus right now is Caprica because that really is the next at bat.

Ron, having worked on Star Trek in years past, we're there any lessons that you took home from those spin off series that you're now able to apply to Caprica as a spinoff of the Battlestar universe?

Ron Moore: Probably first and foremost that you don't try to repeat the formula. You know, I think that, you know, I questioned at the time Trek's, when Star Trek - after Deep Space Nine when they developed the Voyager, and then subsequently Enterprise. Both those projects felt too similar to Next Generation and to the original series for me and by my lights.

I felt that, Deep Space was the way to do a spin off series of an existing franchise where you really are doing a very different show. It's a different format. It's a different feeling. You know, and the Deep Space Nine station lent itself to continuing stories. The Next Generation was episodic. I mean they were just very different animals. I felt that it was more creatively satisfying to do that instead of doing a, you know, a spin off that just felt like a different version of the mother ship. And so that definitely informed, you know, the process as we went into Caprica.

There's a lot of talk about Caprica. And I really wanted to know because there were some - there was some success with Razor. And most definitely will be with The Plan. Do you think that there will be any more opportunities for a prequel for Battlestar and for Caprica, you know, movie offshoots.

Ron Moore: Don't know about Caprica. Haven't had - haven't even thought about that direction. I don't know that there's really any opportunity to do more Battlestar pieces. We've struck the set. You know, I mean the sets are gone. So that alone, you know, raises a huge hurdle to try to do any more. Because, I don't know what, how they would scrape together the money to reassemble that ship. But, you know, there's always virtual versions of the ship. And you never say never. But I would say it's very, very unlikely that there would be any more.

The full, extensive interview, can be found here.

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RE: You're so wrong Mr Moore | Report this post to moderator
By: Bondo (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 22:53:55 on Jan 07, 2009

Hey, whatever happened to the guy that originally had the idea for what became "Caprica"? Is he still involved with the project?

Word was, at the time, that someone approached Sci-Fi with a robot story, and Sci-Fi thought it might fit in with the established BSG universe.

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By: Tupperfan (Odo's file, contact) @ 01:47:36 on Jan 08, 2009

That's definitely a dumb idea. If you want the same shit, don't repeat the formula, just keep going until you tell the same stories over and over again.

Oh wait, that's what they did!

I'm a fan and I definitely don't want the same stuff heated and served again. DS9 was the best trek after TOs because it was different! And there would be plenty of other stories in the Trek universe that would be great without going the Federation Starship trekking through the stars way again...

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By: Sam Cogley (Odo's file, contact) @ 22:17:40 on Jan 07, 2009

Then why is DS9 always hailed as a great series? *watches stupid argument go down in flames*

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