HELP ME ROUND
BY THE MID-2000S, writer and producer Ronald D Moore was a major player in sci-fi television. He came up in the medium the old-school way, steadily moving up the writing ladder of experience, eventually gaining the kind of critical cred that translates into creating and showrunning his own series.
His eight years on the Star Trek franchise, from The Next Generation through to Voyager, taught him the creative churn of script turnaround while honing his skills in the writers’ room and on the set. He then transitioned to executive-producing Roswell and Carnivàle, and rebooted Battlestar Galactica into a gritty modern classic. It’s not surprising, then, that Moore was on the radar of another sci-fi creator who was looking to put together a team to help him transition his popular space opera universe onto the small screen.
That guy was George Lucas, of course, who as we’ve already discussed was at that time. This would have been the universe’s first live-action TV series, .
