Ronald Dowl Moore is an American screenwriter and television producer. He is best known for his work on Star Trek; on the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series, for which he won a Peabody Award; and on Outlander, based on the novels of Diana Gabaldon.
In honor of the sci-fi franchise’s 55th anniversary this year and produced by The Nacelle Company, the project will feature interviews with cast, crew and experts as it explores pivotal moments in the franchise’s history, from its inception at Lucille Ball’s production company Desilu to recent film and television adaptations.
Release Date: 2021-11-05
Character: Self
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 16
Explore an aspirational world where NASA and the space program remained a priority and a focal point of our hopes and dreams as told through the lives of NASA astronauts, engineers, and their families.
Release Date: 2019-11-01
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 40
Vote Count: 735
A documentary exploring the legacy of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the reasons it went from the black sheep of Star Trek to a beloved mainstay of the franchise, and a brainstorm with the original writers on what a theoretical eighth season of the show could look like.
Release Date: 2018-10-12
Character: Self
Vote Count: 42
A diverse anthology of ambitious, moving tales inspired by Philip K Dick's short stories.
Release Date: 2017-09-17
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 306
Over the last fifty years, America has been fascinated by Star Trek since it first aired in September of 1966. This 2-hour documentary celebrates the 50th anniversary through interviews with cast and crew members from every television series and the original films.
Release Date: 2016-08-14
Character: Self
Vote Count: 22
“Showrunners” is the first ever feature length documentary film to explore the fascinating world of US television showrunners and the creative forces aligned around them. These are the people responsible for creating, writing and overseeing every element of production on one of the United State’s biggest exports – television drama and comedy series. Often described as the most complex job in the entertainment business, a showrunner is the chief writer / producer on a TV series and, in most instances, the show’s creator. Battling daily between art and commerce, showrunners manage every aspect of a TV show’s development and production: creative, financial and logistical.
Release Date: 2014-10-17
Character: Self
Vote Count: 46
The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
Release Date: 2014-08-09
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 29
Vote Count: 2631
The series heads to the very frontiers of space and science to produce the definitive television history of science fiction, told through its impact on cinema, television and literature, with the help of filmmakers, writers, actors, and graphic artists. Each episode will explore one of the enduring themes of science fiction: time travel; the exploration of space; robots and artificial intelligence; and aliens.
Release Date: 2014-04-19
Character: Self
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 19
Helix is an intense thriller about a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control who travel to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic to investigate a possible disease outbreak, only to find themselves pulled into a terrifying life-and-death struggle that holds the key to mankind's salvation...or total annihilation.
Release Date: 2014-01-10
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 430
In this documentary mini series, Shatner, in each of the five half an hour episodes, presents and interviews one of the people who played the five Star Trek captains before the 2009 reboot. Chris Pine interviews him.
Release Date: 2013-05-16
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 9
The Enterprise has a deadly encounter with the Borg, resulting in Picard's kidnap, while Commander Riker encounters a beautiful rival with an eye on his job.
Release Date: 2013-04-25
Department: Writing
Job: Executive Story Editor
Vote Count: 13
In a modern world where magic supplanted science, the unaired pilot featured two non-intersecting stories: the death of a city executive at the hands of a wrongful convict, and the introduction of terrorists who are devoted to the destruction of magic.
Release Date: 2011-12-30
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 1
Trek Nation is a documentary film directed by Scott Colthorp examining the positive impact that Star Trek and creator Gene Roddenberry may have had on people's lives as seen through the eyes of his son, Eugene Roddenberry, Jr. ("Rod"). It includes interviews with castmembers and crew from all five Star Trek shows, as well as various fans and celebrities who were markedly influenced by the show while growing up. Rod Roddenberry also visits Skywalker Ranch to interview George Lucas on the influence that Star Trek had on him. Lucas shares how he had gone to Star Trek conventions prior to creating Star Wars.
Release Date: 2011-11-30
Character: Himself
Vote Count: 23
Satirical sketch comedy set and filmed in Portland, Oregon that explores the eccentric misfits who embody the foibles of modern culture.
Release Date: 2011-01-21
Character: Ken Reynolds
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 145
Set 58 years before Battlestar Galactica, Caprica follows two rival families - the Graystones and the Adamas - as they grow, compete, and thrive in the vibrant world of the peaceful 12 Colonies, living in a society close to our own. Entangled in the burgeoning technology of artificial intelligence and robotics that will eventually lead to the creation of the Cylons, the two houses go toe-to-toe, blending action with corporate conspiracy and sexual politics.
Release Date: 2010-01-22
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 364
When the initial Cylon attack against the Twelve Colonies fails to achieve complete extermination of human life as planned, twin Number Ones (Cavils) embedded on Galactica and Caprica must improvise to destroy the human survivors.
Release Date: 2009-10-27
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 431
Twelve extremely talented men and women have been chosen to be part of the Phaeton mission, a 10-year trek to explore a distant planetary system. In order to endure the stress of being confined to their high-tech vessel, the crew passes the time using advanced virtual reality modules that allow them to take on various identities. But as the ship approaches a critical phase of their journey, a deadly flaw is discovered in the virtual system, forcing them to question if someone onboard might be a killer.
Release Date: 2009-06-26
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 82
Virtuality is a television pilot co-written by Ronald D. Moore and Michael Taylor and directed by Peter Berg that aired on the Fox network. Since the show was never picked up as a television series, the two-hour pilot episode aired as a movie on June 26, 2009.
Release Date: 2009-06-26
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 3
The 10 webisodes, entitled "The Face of the Enemy," tell a story that takes place between seasons 4.0 and 4.5 of Battlestar and follow Lt. Gaeta when he is sent off in a Raptor with a handful of strangers and one of them mysteriously dies. The psychological human-vs.-Cylon struggle is played out in the restrictive confines of a Raptor as everyone is a suspect, and paranoia sets in among the group.
Release Date: 2008-12-12
Department: Production
Job: Development Manager
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 30
The documentary story of Harlan Ellison
Release Date: 2008-06-04
Character: sELF
Vote Count: 17
The history and adventures of the Battlestar Pegasus, from shortly before the Cylon invasion to shortly after Lee Adama is made commander. The story is told through the eyes of and largely focuses on one particular member of Pegasus's crew, Kendra Shaw.
Release Date: 2007-11-12
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 406
A series of webisodes that tell the story of William Adama who as a youth uncovers a Cylon experiment while serving in the first Cylon War.
Release Date: 2007-10-05
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 7
Vote Count: 10
Set between the second season finale and the third season premiere of the reimagined series, this online ten episode miniseries begins on the 67th day of Cylon occupation. It is learned that among the Cylons' first acts of occupation was the building of a detention center. The Cylons have also started recruiting for a human New Caprica Police (NCP) force. Former Galactica pilot Duck, whom Jammer has been courting for The Resistance, condemns the NCP as collaborators but is reluctant to get involved.
Release Date: 2006-09-05
Department: Production
Job: Development Manager
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 40
A series of pop-culture parodies using stop-motion animation of toys, action figures and dolls. The title character was an ordinary chicken until he was run down by a car and subsequently brought back to life in cyborg form by mad scientist Fritz Huhnmorder, who tortures Robot Chicken by forcing him to watch a random selection of TV shows, the sketches that make up the body of each episode.
Release Date: 2005-02-20
Character: Ronald D. Moore / James Bond / Steve (voice) (as Ronald Moore)
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 491
When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.
Release Date: 2004-10-18
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1577
Fans, cast and crew of the Star Trek shows reflect on their favorite moments from The Original Series.
Release Date: 2004-01-01
Character: Himself
Vote Count: 2
A re-imagining of the original series in which a "rag-tag fugitive fleet" of the last remnants of mankind flees pursuing robots while simultaneously searching for their true home, Earth.
Release Date: 2003-12-08
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 851
Release Date: 2003-12-02
Character: Himself
Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes Christian theology with gnosticism and Masonic lore, particularly that of the Knights Templar.
Release Date: 2003-09-14
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 24
Vote Count: 414
The making of the iconic Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode.
Release Date: 2003-01-01
Character: Himself
Vote Count: 1
Within the walls of a desolate cabin, a man and a woman discover that thin line between love and hatred. Is this the last throes of a romance gone wrong? Or is it an illusory dance with fate?
Release Date: 2002-02-25
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.
Release Date: 2000-10-06
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1272
With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude.
Release Date: 2000-05-24
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 6847
Bizarre things start happening in the little New Mexico town where UFOs were spotted in 1947. Cut to 1999, when a cute high-school student saves the life of a teenage waitress. Surrounded by cliques of clever, angst-filled classmates, the two form a bond that threatens the survival of a secret universe involving superhuman powers, a yen for hot sauce and an alien gene pool.
Release Date: 1999-10-06
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 447
The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue the Borg back in time to prevent the invaders from changing Federation history and assimilating the galaxy.
Release Date: 1996-11-22
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1785
The Making of Star Trek Deep Space Nine Trials And Tribble-ations was a documentary which was broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel in the US on 4 November 1996. The documentary looks at the writing and production of the episode and features footage filmed during production of the episode. Some of the interviews later appeared as special features in the DS9 Season 5 DVD.
Release Date: 1996-11-04
Character: Self
Vote Count: 1
The Enterprise is diverted to Ohniaka Three, when the colony signals that it is under attack. Arriving at the outpost, the Starfleet Officers discover that a previously resisted enemy has returned. The Borg are now more hideously powerful than ever before. Having discarded their relentless behaviour, they now display individuality, are possessed by ruthless aggression and will attack on sight. This terrifying turn for the worse is blamed on Captain Jean-Luc Picard because of his earlier leniency on an adolescent Borg. During the fighting, Data experiences his first emotion and discovers that his evil brother, Lore, has joined the Borg.
Release Date: 1995-04-24
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
Pulled to the far side of the galaxy, where the Federation is 75 years away at maximum warp speed, a Starfleet ship must cooperate with Maquis rebels to find a way home.
Release Date: 1995-01-16
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 959
Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soran who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soran's scheme...and he's been dead for seventy-eight years.
Release Date: 1994-11-18
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1349
Release Date: 1994-05-15
Department: Writing
Job: Executive Story Editor
Vote Count: 1
At Deep Space Nine, a space station located next to a wormhole in the vicinity of the liberated planet of Bajor, Commander Sisko and crew welcome alien visitors, root out evildoers and solve all types of unexpected problems that come their way.
Release Date: 1993-01-03
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
Episode Count: 14
Vote Count: 825
Loyalties are divided when civil war splits the Klingon Empire. When Worf sees a chance to regain his wrongfully lost family honor, he must choose between his duty as a Starfleet officer and his heritage as a Klingon warrior. Meanwhile, Picard struggles to keep the Federation from being dragged into the fray. But a shocking new adversary from the past threatens to destroy both the Federation and the Klingon Empire.
Release Date: 1991-09-23
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 7
Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds.
Release Date: 1987-09-28
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 176
Vote Count: 1538
Follow two parallel love stories set in two different time periods; Jamie Fraser’s parents in the early 18th century Scottish Highlands and Claire Beauchamp's parents in World War I England.
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 1
A propulsive, paranoid thriller that takes us back to the key moment in the alt-history retelling of the space race — when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. But this time, the story is explored from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humanity forward.
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
After exiling himself from his blood-soaked past in ancient Greece, Kratos, the God of War, hangs up his weapons forever in the Norse realm of Midgard. But when his beloved wife dies, Kratos sets off on a dangerous journey with his estranged son to spread her ashes from the highest peak—his wife's final wish. Kratos soon realizes the journey is an epic quest in disguise, one which will test the bonds between father and son, and force Kratos to battle new Gods and monsters for the fate of the world.
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 1