Ron Moore Drops Some Trash Talk on Trek In New York Television Festival Keynote

Ron Moore, the man behind the greatly missed Battlestar Galactica, recently oh snapped on Trek tech and how it was basically a crutch for lazy writing. Something I wholeheartedly agree with.

To be frank, the Trek shows after the original were a pale shadow of the original series. The big bang of Trek 1 was so fierce that it’s radiating afterglow fueled all the shows to come. A few of the shows had moments but for the most part the sequels were young adult shows. Ron Moore attended the New York Television Festival as the keynote speaker and brought the truth with him. Thanks Scifiwire.

Here’s Ron talking about how NG scripts were written.

“It became the solution to so many plot lines and so many stories,” Moore said. “It was so mechanical that we had science consultants who would just come up with the words for us and we’d just write ‘tech’ in the script. You know, Picard would say ‘Commander La Forge, tech the tech to the warp drive.’ I’m serious. If you look at those scripts, you’ll see that.”

We have the video of his keynote here and it’s highly illuminating. I recommend it highly.