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(Updated Saturday, March 27)
(Updated Saturday, March 27)
This is an archiving of all of DS9 writer/executive producer Ronald D. Moore's AOL postings, the newest will appear first. The posts from February 1997-January 1998 were provided by Tom Hagopian. All following posts are provided by Lawrence Boucher, and/or Joseph Brooks. Thanks to all of them!
Note: This section of this site was named one of Psi Phi's Sites of the Month for October, 1997.
Note 2: To make archiving a bit more efficient, I'm trying to add summaries of the major points of discussion in each post. Given limited space, this is just a summary of *some* of the discussion. In case you are new to this archive, invariably, each post will contain discussion on a wide variety of subjects, and as such, just about all of them are worth reading.
| March 26 | A Birth Announcement, heading in to DS9's final nine episodes, Vic and Ezri episodes, how DS9 should be remembered, whether all loose ends will be tied up, whether Ron will write a tell all, what will happen to DS9's sets, the day Gene Roddenberry died, which scriptwriting program the staff uses, Alpha/Gamma Quadrant Jem'Hadar, this season's strongest and weakest shows, unrealized story ideas for DS9, where's Jake?, the Alamo, "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"/the Voyager sets, recasting Cretak, Jadzia/Ezri prejuidice, Majel Roddenberry's DS9 criticisms. |
| January 18 | A Vic Fontaine Album?, DS9 movies, Kai Winn, Vic's sentience, "It's Only a Paper Moon", whether Vic's songs are a valid dramatic device, Martini Science, Vic Fontaine: the Live Show?, Naren Shankar, "Covenant", Flashback "SOAR-588" scenes, Worf and Ezri, the Maquis, Star Trek films in a Star Wars market, Where's Ezri's father, Kira's heels |
| December 14 | "Once More", "The Siege of Ar-558", Vic Fontaine's singing, critical episodes for novice DS9 fans, Return of Winn, Section 31, Weyoun, Tom Riker, Costamojin confusion, "Insurrection", Picard's missing years between commands, "Covenant", "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" (and what it means) |
| November 18 | The End of DS9/Final season planning, "Once More Unto the Breach", Ron's post-DS9 plans, Ezri and romance |
| October 27 | Solok racism, "Take Me Out to the Hol Suite", Sisko's immaculate conception, Ezri Dax |
| October 26 | "Take Me Out to the Holo Suite", Early season stand-outs, Nicole de Boer, possibility of Terry Farrell returning?, Dr. Mora, Grilka, Kurn, Bashir's parents and Sisko's sister appearing this season?, Worf as a father, Federation National Anthem. |
| October 1 | Enterprise E, Jake's reporting, reprising characters, Vic Fontaine's own episode, TOS on Sci-Fi, Is Marie Picard still alive?, Mission Impossible 2, Nicole deBoer |
| Spetember 15 | Guinan's backstory, "Take Me Out to the Holo Suite" |
| September 14 | Directors, smoking, Vic Fontaine, Torturing O'Brien, Season Seven tidbits |
| August 31 | The Adrienne Barbeau rumor, the Borg, Odo's rank, Terry Farrell guest spots, what happens to the sets, the DS9 finale airing the same week as the opening of Star Wars Episode One? |
| August 28 | Nicole de Boer, What we will learn about the Dominion this year, Torture O'Brien?, Watters' drug addiction, Beta Quadrant re-modling, Opaka, Eugenics Wars, Ferengi Finger nails, Impact of Wormhole closing |
| August 12 | Early season episodes, the legend of Kahless, new ships?, Bajor stories |
| August 5 | Ferengi joining the fight, Baseball Changeling, Emmy Ordeal, WGA Rules on Writing Pairs, Kolbe banned from DS9?, Picard crying, writing staff cameos?, Do they know Dukat killed Jadzia?, Kai Winn to blame?, Jem'Hadar POWs |
| July 22 | The alternate "Tears of the Prophets", the direction of the season to come, loose story angles, Dukat |
| July 17 | The size of the Empires, How the producers see Jadzia's death as opposed to fans, sexism, racism |
| July 13 | Bareil, Life after DS9, Women/Sexism in Star Trek |
| July 9 | The Impact on Worf of Dax's death, gay characters, the new Dax |
| July 2 | More about killing off Dax, the new Dax, next season, Klingon women |
| July 1 | Clearing up Dax rumors |
| June 30 | "Tears of the Prophets", Dax's death, the new Dax, WW2 |
| June 19 | "Trials and Tribble-ations", "The Sound of Her Voice" time travel, AFI's Top 100 Films |
| June 12 | Ferengi episodes, Terry's last day, would they have married Dax and Worf?, Lwaxana, Saratoga pre-quel, Red Squad, Uncredited re-write(r)s, Star Trek: Musical |
| June 4 | Killing Kirk, musical scores, escalating TV production costs, Nog in "Valiant", Where's Rene Echevarria?, "Sound"-ing not so good, the season finale, Avery "Pales" |
| June 2 | Ron Moore returns from vacation, "Time's Orphan" |
| May 1 | Character oriented Star Trek, "His Way", Dax/Worf in ST9, Jellico |
| April 22 | Civil War, Peter Allan Fields, the hiatus, T'Rul |
| April 21 | Worf, Dukat, Terry Farrell, finale, Gamma Quadrant, ship yards, Piller, "Wrong" continuity, Emmys, Galaxy class starships, the Civil War |
| April 15 | Section 31, Moore & Braga to write "Mission Impossible"?, Mila |
| April 14 | Section 31, Lwaxana, Kira's moral dilemma |
| April 13 | Pocket Books, Kira & Dukat, The Sound of Her Voice, Tom Riker, Section 31, Terry Farrell, season finale |
| April 7 | DS9, Betrayer of Trek ideology |
| April 3 | New episode, Paula Jones, Season 7, Kira and Ziyal: Sisters? |
| April 2 | Intelligence, weapons of mass destruction, "Valiant", favorite directors |
| March 30 | Would Gene approve of DS9? |
| March 25 | The writers after DS9, Moore defends the Dominion War against ST idealism |
| March 23 | The genetically engineered mutants, "Out of Time" and the O'Briens, Kirk's "Oh, my" scene, season five's "10 episode" style, Valiant class vessels. |
| March 20 | Generations, Keiko and Molly return!, the war arc, "Change of Heart" |
| March 13 | "Change of Heart", stock photography, Assimilated Jennifer Sisko |
| March 6 | Chase aliens, "Honor Among Thieves", Defiant-class, Why the UK has to wait for eps |
| March 5 | Upcoming episodes, Odo |
| March 4 | "Far Beyond the Stars", "Valiant", Terry Farrell |
| February 25 | Nielsen ratings, "Far Beyond the Stars", Kai Opaka |
| Febrary 17 | Post 20th century culture, Odo/Kira, Tal Shiar survival?, Kai Winn, Odo's betrayal, Dukat and evil, "Far Beyond the Stars" |
| February 5-2 | A DS9 opening monologue, the holoscreen, Dukat, FC on "South Park", Shatner, If Tasha Were Here |
| February 5 | "Message in a Bottle", The Media, Upcoming Shows, Klingon stuff, death penalty |
| January 30 | Dukat, Dominion justice, Keevan, familiar Romulans, Yellow journalism |
| January 30 | U.S. politics, Dukat, the Prometheus, Changeling genetics, NFL |
| January 29 | The President, Picard/Lily scene from FC, The Pope in Cuba, Linda Tripp, The Dominion, Was Season 6 Series finale considered? |
| January 28-9 | Clinton, "Waltz", character promotions, alien Borg, Rick Berman as part of creative process |
| January 27 | Clinton scandal, Upcoming episodes, direction of the series, Dukat |
| January 26 | Season 7 confirmation, "Waltz", "Message in a Bottle", T&T music, actors/lines |
| January 23 | "Waltz", Romulan Return, AOL posting guidelines which really don't apply to us |
| January 8 | Garak's loyalties, Keevan, homo-erotic undertones, Roddenberryism meets the Vorta, Jeffrey Combs, Duras sisters, "Our Man Bashir" legalities |
| January 5 | Episode titles, nasty weapons of war, wormhole, Iggy Pop, Keevan cloning |
| December 18 | DS9 Fan Disappointments, Nog/Worf parallels, "Mortal" rip-off, Battle of Britain |
| December 17 | Kira/Odo, Martok, TOS character arcs |
| December 5 | D is for?: The final saga, "You are Cordially Invited", rewriting |
| December 4 | "Generations" alternate ending, Dax's memories, "In Theory" |
| December 2 | "Little Ship", The yearly pagan ritual of punishing O'Brien, Mom Kira, Bashir |
| November 25 | New DS9 Episodes, Write Your Own Episode Sweepstakes? Dukat, storyline architects, Kira and Odo in the closet/Bareil |
| November 13 | Modern American history, Dominion stuff, Robert Urich, B5/DS9. |
| November 12 | Kira, Odo, "Sacrifice of Angels", Cuban Missile Crisis, Alaimo blows a secret |
| November 11 | TrekWeb chat |
| October 27 | Kira/Sexism on DS9, character arcs, Ent-D's destruction, Worf/Dax, "Behind The Lines", writing, the arc's length, S6-S7, loose ends questions, Deadly Sparks. |
| October 23 | Time travel, Klingon culture, Keiko, Damar, Garak, Nog. |
| October 22 | The missing Damar scene, Brannon Braga, Klingons |
| October 20 | Casting choices, favorite episode names, "R&S", Kira, phasers, S6 |
| October 10 | The Fed Fleets, Dukat the tyrant, the Arc, Romulans, Kasidy |
| October 9 | Bashir, script submissions, World War II |
| October 3 | Script submissions, Continuity, WWII, Mirror Spock, T&T |
| October 2 | The Borg, Gene's universe, Ron's hair, runabouts, continuity |
| September 29 | DS9 Law, Weyoun clones, Empok Nor |
| September 25 | TNG in wedding, Tom & Ro, Bashir & Fed genetics, Kira & Odo in the arc |
| September 24 | The Morn episode, Ron the novelist, Vorta power! Bashir, tech emmys, continuity, DS9 writing |
| September 19 | Jadzia/Curzon, "D" is for?, DMZ, Worf, Kira's bros, "Piece of the Action" |
| September 16 | BB & RDM=bad motion picture writers, No chemistry for Dax & Worf? |
| Spetember 15 | No VOY for Ron, "Cordially", The Ellen outing, submissions |
| September 11 | Princess Diana tribute, Klingon opera at wedding, Cardies and Sesame St., Jake the reporter, crossovers, "Chase" aliens=Founders?, preventing leaks. |
| August 29 | Bloopers, Bajoran culture, Odo-tties, Alexander, Maquis, Poor DS9 writing |
| August 23 | Ron's writing software, his personal life, Ziyal |
| August 20 | T&T, Damar and Ziyal, "Lessons", family friendly TNG, Worf's family |
| August 8 | "D&L", Bashir, Kira & Odo, Ron's career, Kira's "Body Parts" |
| August 7 | Splitting the crew up in "Call to Arms", DS9 comedies, new episode names |
| August 5 | Wesley's evolution, important script elements, submissions |
| August 4 | Ron's job secuirty history at Trek, BOPs, K'Ehleyr, film cameos, Kira complaints |
| August 1 | "The First Duty", Kira and Dax complaints, K'Ehleyr's death |
| July 28 | Worf on the Rotarran, Ricardo Montalban, "Lower Decks", Embarrassing TNG, Ron's film favorites, Berman, Shakaar, Ron's opinion on DS9 Emmy noms |
| July 24 | The "Save ST" site, the holo-communicator, Ron's fandom history, when he sold "The Bonding", "D" is for? guesses |
| July 17 | Life after Trek, The meaning of "Rocks and Shoals"'s title, Is the truth out there? |
| July 16 | TNG 10th Anniversary? "SOTE" Klingon crew, What Ron looks like, "D" is for?, Colm at work, Enterprise's role in the fleet, Translating WOTW, Writing for Garak |
| July 11 | DS9 battles, VISOR, VOY on-line, MSN, Lwaxana |
| July 7 | Actual AOL chat session, DS9 sixth season preview |
| July 2 | Standing sets, Tholians, Ron and Klingons, budget, S5 favorites, romance, ST:G |
| July 1 | Garak's origin, Defiant's name, Ron's vacation, DS9 credits, Challenger memories |
| June 24 | FC Stardates, "Rapture", Martok, favorite TOS episode |
| June 23 | Pocket Books, JMS bashing DS9, E-E, Romulans, "CtoA" fleet, Geigers and Bears, Robert Urich on DS9, Dukat, Bill Clinton |
| June 20 | Willie Mays baseball card, BB, Rush Limbaugh, "Renaissance", internships |
| June 18 | J/J'ers demand blood, writers getting sued. |
| May 16 | "Now it's time to say good-bye... to all our company...." |
| May 15 | Sexism in the Klingon Empire. |
| May 14 | DS9's backstory, "Children", Bashir's sandwiches in "IPS", how actors are paid |
| May 8 | Judging US Presidents, Kirk, Ron's S5 favorites, Duras sisters |
| May 6 | Structural changes, Sisko, Klingon Year 999, "Soldiers of the Empire", Buffy, the Nexus, famous guest stars |
| May 5 | Livingston, composers, Kirk's death |
| May 2 (2) | Season 7?, Negative publicity, Worf and Dax, Kirk. |
| May 2 | College days, Letter writing campaign, Sito, "SOTE", Klingon CD-ROM |
| April 29 | E-E, Romulans, Jennifer Sisko, "Ties of Blood", Kira, Grilka, Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Piller, E-E ugly?, cultural respect, Hugos |
| April 25 | Holodecks as fantasy? Klingon ridges |
| April 18 (2) | Holodeck ethics |
| April 18 | Barclay, holodecks, Changelings |
| April 17 | Voyager the competition? Odo a fascist?, Vorta Power! |
| April 14 | Ron imposter, "The Bonding", actor's influence on characters, Kira O'Brien, Conservatives offended at Risa, Kasidy |
| April 11 | Letter writing campaign, Romulans |
| April 10 | Ron's TV viewing habits, camera work, Emmys |
| April 9 (2) | Berman, ST:9, FC, Sisko as Emissary, DS9 overlooked in media |
| April 9 | DS9 size, TOS aliens, Worf's mother, pitching stories |
| April 8 | Pitching, guest/recurring stars |
| April 7 | Heaven's Gate, Favorite DS9 episodes, Jake's novel, Fed President, Kirk/ST:G, "Rascals" |
| April 5 | Voyager, vacation, middle child, "Enpok Nor", TV writing |
| April 4 | Social issues, Vanessa Williams, Fan-atics, Rene Echevarria, Weyoun, less of Dax, Bareil, Armin's hints |
| March 31 | IMAX, Kira, ST:9, Jake |
| March 24 | Dax's feelings for Worf, Bajor joining Federation, Ron will not be writing ST:9 |
| March 21 | Writing Ron a letter, Worf/Dax, Worf as Starfleet officer, Dominion, Avery Brooks |
| March 5 | "Inferno", 47, Jimmy Diggs, the O' Brien chronology |
| March 4 (2) | Bashir's medical exam, Bashir's genes, Alexander |
| March 4 | Star Trek scripting, ST reference, effects, legal system, "Battle Lines" |
| March 3 | Character focus, Eugenics Wars |
| February 28 (2) | Bashir Changeling, Bashir's father |
| February 28 | Rotating Ziyals, Upcoming episode names, Sela |
| Moore Post 2 | |
| Moore Post 1 | Worf loose ends, Dukat, Mirror Jake |
Brannon Braga
| January 21 | "The Omega Directive" |
Writers/Producers
| Ira Steven Behr on MSN | September 30 |
| Robert Hewitt Wolfe | February 17 |
| Michael Piller | TrekWeb Chat |
| Brannon Braga |
Actors and Actresses
| TV Guide: Kate Mulgrew Chat | July 6 |
| TV Guide: Michael Dorn Chat | July 16 |
Reporters
| TV Guide's Trek Expert Michael Logan |
Robert Hewitt Wolfe
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