#RONALD D. MOORE

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This picture is sooo funny. Wrenn looks like thinking “I will outlive all of them”. 🤓

New York Comic Con 2019 (Corey Nickols/Contour)

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For All Mankind

Season 4, “Perestroika”

Director: Sergio Mimica-Gezzan

DoP: Ross Berryman

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Funko's second wave of Pop figures based on the upcoming Funko Fusion video game includes The Thing's Blair Monster (with chase variant) and Spider Head, Shaun of the Dead's Shaun, and Battlestar Galactica's Cylon (with chase variant).

Blair Monster is a deluxe 6.75" Pop priced at $30. Spider Head is a Funko Shop exclusive for $15. The others are $12. Due out in October, they include a redeemable code for an in-game item.

Developed by 10:10 Games, Funko Fusion will be released on PC, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch on September 13.

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In season 2, [Co-creator Ronald D.] Moore told Inverse:

Actually, I did spend some time thinking about that and in my head. None of this has been set down, I haven’t talked about this formally. But in my head, The Wrath of Khan is the first Star Trek movie [in the For All Mankind timeline]. They probably did the Star Trek: Phase II show that has always been talked about. The original Star Trek went off the air before the Apollo II landing. ... In my version of history, Paramount does make the Phase II show in the mid-seventies. And then they transitioned into Wrath of Khan and not Star Trek: The Motion Picture, because of the run of the lengthy and glorious, and critically acclaimed run of Phase II, it’s a year later that The Wrath of Khan comes out. But it’s still The Wrath of Khan that we know and it was essentially the same story. I love The Wrath of Khan and I couldn’t bear to change that. So it’s the same thing.

"Based on Moore’s explanation, Star Trek seems healthier in For All Mankind’s ’70s and ’80s than it was in our timeline, yet this also led to fewer iterations of the franchise. Does any version of The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, or Enterprise exist in this alternate reality? Ron Moore worked on both Next Gen and DS9, so he may want to avoid references to versions of Trek he worked on."

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First time you felt seen by Star Trek?

The episode: DS9-- ‘Rejoined’

What I knew: I knew I was queer, had since I was four years old.

What I saw: A trans person! Who wasn’t a psychotic criminal! who had a lover of the same current gender. And her friends were fine with both of these things!! They loved her anyway!! On tv!!!! On my favourite Star Trek show, with the character I understood the most. I’d never seen that before!! I’d never seen someone talk about gender so fluidly as Jadzia. I’d always felt represented by Dax, but seeing her wlw relationship accepted by everyone around her blew my mind. Many things clicked into place for me the night of 30 October 1995. I cried. Teenager me was in puddles. Adult me puddles every time.

Director: Avery Brooks

Writers: Ronald D. Moore, René Echevarria

Story by: René Echevarria

Thank you for that moment, DS9. You made me felt seen for the first time, possibly ever.

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How successful would James "Jamie" Fraser…

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**Shots of the Episode**

Outlander (2014)

Season 7, Episode 1: “A Life Well Lost” (2023) Director: Lisa Clarke Cinematographer: Alasdair Walker

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NYCC 2023: For All Mankind - Ronald D. Moore Discusses Season 4's Challenges of Crafting an Alternate Reality and Generational Casting

Ronald D. Moore delves into what it takes to craft Season 4 of For All Mankind

The third season of For All Mankind saw humanity expand its footprint to Mars and set up a colony on the red planet, but that was just the beginning. At New York Comic Con 2023, The Workprint was able to sit down with For All Mankind‘s executive producer and creator, Ronald D. Moore, in roundtable interviews to discuss the upcoming fourth season, what it takes to craft an alternate reality, the…

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It’s SDCC day!

Hopefully we get some review of the panel ❤️

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For All Mankind

Season 4, “Legacy”

Director: Maja Vrvilo

DoP: Ross Berryman

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#happybirthday @RonDMoore #RonaldDMoore #writer #producer #startrek #thenextgeneration #deepspacenine #voyager #generations #firstcontact #battlestargalactica #razor #caprica #outlander #helix #ElectricDreams #forallmankind #ds930 #startrek57 @TrekMovie @TrekCore @StarTrek

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Well, I guess if Lower Decks represents a case study of how well-served René Echevarria has been by TNG's writer's room, Journey's End just kind of serves to show that Ronald D. Moore has really reached the point where he would be much better served by writing on Deep Space Nine...

Which fits, I suppose, since this is his penultimate writing credit on the show, with the last one being the literal series finale.

Like, it's surreal to think that the Maquis storyline started on TNG, the show that was arguably least well-suited to this kind of fundamental distrust in Starfleet and the Federation. That is, of course, Deep Space Nine's ballgame - Sisko pun definitely intended - and even though Moore feels like the TNG staff writer most in tune with that ethos, he has yet to make the leap.

This sense that he's fighting an uphill battle against the very character of the show is reinforced from a very early stage, with Picard's attempts to offer up canapés and tea as a peace offering to Admiral Nechayev serving as an effective microcosm of why this kind of story won't work on TNG.

No matter how far Picard gets pushed away from his faith in Starfleet, that faith is too unswerving to ever allow him to make a speech like Sisko's from The Maquis, Part II - the two-parter that is, of course, effectively the direct successor to this story some four weeks later, and does a much better job at handling these themes.

Picard is a great protagonist, and Patrick Stewart does a frankly incredible job selling him as a character who incrementally and almost imperceptibly opens up over the course of the show, to the point where Moore's eventual decision to close on the poker game in All Good Things... has much more weight than it might otherwise, but this is largely a tacit and unspoken evolution in comparison to Sisko's more material growth.

On top of all of this, there is of course the stuff with Wesley and the Traveller which... well, whatever can be said about Where No One Has Gone Before's suggestion that Wesley was an amazing wunderkind, at least it didn't see the need to heap on a weird, appropriative New Age treatment of Native American belief systems and culture a la Dances with Wolves or The Last of the Mohicans.

(Then again, this is all really just hearkening forward to Voyager's woefully ill-advised treatment of Chakotay's heritage as a generic hodge-podge of crude and stereotypical pop cultural depictions of Native Americans, but I'm sure I'll get into that if I ever do a similar write-up like this for a Voyager episode. Maybe Tattoo...)

And don't even get me started on the way the episode just kinda throws in a blood-stained past for the Picard family in such a cursory way that it really just feels like a means of reassuring the audience about their own white guilt...

Anyway, I don't much like Journey's End. Exceedingly controversial take, I know. Maybe some day I'll do some proper reviews of Star Trek episodes, people seemed to like the Lower Decks piece.

(TBH, I mostly just felt a bit guilty over giving so much focus to DS9, so I wanted to get some TNG pieces in before the close of the show. Hope you liked this nonsense, Trek seems to be what most people are here for anyway, but I like talking about it, so I ain't complaining at all.)