Thanks to Dottie0062 for this “I found this in a local t.v guide but it was written by Kate O’Hare from Tribune Media Services. The Arizona Republic the week of Sept 10-16” Hmmm..wonder why Kate never sent it over to me or gave the heads up that she was talking with Ron–and to think she called the office today too. Oh, btw, I happen to know Kate so that’s why I wondered out loud about not knowing about this article.<\/p>\n
\n“Trek” producer lands in “Roswell”<\/strong><\/p>\n
” I did a good, long run on Star Trek,” writer\/producer Ron D. Moore says. “Ten years is a long time. It’s an eternity on television. Doing something else…I feel
\nlike Star Trek, the experience there, really prepared me to do good work.<\/p>\n“Now I feel like I had a graduate degree in television writing that I can now take and apply.”<\/p>\n
After a stint on GvsE, which became “good vs. evil” after it moved from
\nUSA Network to the Sci Fi Channel, longtime Trek staffer Moore was ready
\nto leap bck into a producer capacity.<\/p>\n“When I sat down and started writing good vs. evil, it was something
\ncompletely different from Star Trek, in every way you can imagine. But it
\nwas fun. They liked it, and it got the juices flowing. It was a nice
\nintermediary stage between going full time on a staff and there.”<\/p>\nNow Moore has joined the WB’s Roswell in a co-executive producer
\ncapacity, working with executive producers Jason Katims, Jonathan Frakes
\n(a former Trek star) and Lisa J. Olin. The drama, which currently airs on
\nMonday night, follows the adventures of Max (Jason Behr), his sister,
\nIsabel (Katherine Heigl), and their friend Michael (Brendan Fehr), teen
\naliens who look like humans and were raised by human parents.<\/p>\nNow high school students in Roswell, N.M., site of the infamous 1947
\ncrash, the three were kept alive in stasis pods for decades before
\nemerging as small children. Over the course of the first season, they
\nbegan to find it increasingly difficult to keep their alien identities a
\nsecret, particularly from the local sheriff (William Sadler), the son of
\na dedicated UFO hunter.<\/p>\nTo complicate things, all three aliens have become romantically involved
\nwith humans-Max with Liz (Shiri Appleby); Michael with Liz’s pal, Maria
\n(Majandra Delfino); and Isabel with Liz and Maria’s buddy, Alex (Colin
\nHanks). These relationships-both the emotional and hormonal
\ncomponents-have served as a catalyst for uncovering even more or the
\naliens’ history, including the existence of a shape-shifting alien and
\nthe discovery that there is a fourth teen alien, Tess (Emilie deRavin),
\nfrom the original group.<\/p>\nAs the season ended Max escaped the clutches of the government; the
\nsheriff threw his lot in with the teens after Max saved his son (Nick
\nWechsler); and the teens learned from a vision of Max and Isabel’s true
\nmother (played by Frakes’ wife, Genie Francis), that they are leaders
\nfrom an alien world sent away for protection from enemies, that their
\nmission is far from over, and that they are not alone.<\/p>\nAnd, worst of all, Liz’s heart broke upon learning that Tess and Max
\nwere lovers in their alien lives.<\/p>\nThe show was in some danger of cancellation-how much, nobody knows but
\nthe WB-but a move from Wednesday night to Monday helped in the ratings,
\nand fans began a concerted campaign that involved flooding th WB offices
\nwith bottles of Tabasco sauce (the aliens’ favorite condiment).<\/p>\n“I can’t help but think the Tabasco helped,” Frakes says.
\nWhat lessons did Moore glean from his years on Star Trek: The Nest
\nGeneration and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (and Trek films Generations and
\nFirst Contact) that will help him on Roswell?<\/p>\n“Ultimately, all I learned about science fiction is that it’s still
\nabout characters. It’s still about human beings. I always looked at Star
\nTrek that way. It’s just about people.”<\/p>\nBut his Trek experience did help him get the job. Says Frakes: “I
\ncertainly tried to push him through. Everybody seems to think this was
\none of my wonderful contributions as a producer, that I could finally
\nhelp expedite the Star Trek family over.<\/p>\n“I kept selling him to Jason (Katims), who hadn’t met him, by saying
\nthat Ron virtually created the Klingon mythology on Star Trek. He was a
\nreal fan of the Klingons and expanded them, especially on Deep Space
\nNine, mythology is an essential part of our new alien bent on Roswell.”<\/p>\nAt the end of the season, the human and alien teen had been gone for
\nprobably days in search of the aliens’ origins. Didn’t their parents
\nwonder where they were?<\/p>\n“I think we have to deal with that,” Frakes says. “I have a feeling
\nthat’s going to be what’s happening this first three or four episodes.
\nWe’ll clean that up, because that’s an ugly loose end out there.”<\/p>\nIn the last six episodes of the first season, Katims ramped up the the
\nscience fiction content of the show, moving it out of the claustrophobic
\nconfines of the high school and the Crashdown Cafe, the diner owned by
\nLiz’s parents where the characters usually meet.<\/p>\n“I’ve been watching the episodes in chronological order,” Moore says.
\n“It’s an evolution of the show, but it feels like a very organic
\nevolution.<\/p>\n“The set-up ws so strong for the characters in the pilot, but after
\nmidseason the feeling became, “How much longer can we play just this,
\njust trying to hide their identities week to week and them in the
\nschool?”<\/p>\n“Even Jason started to feel like there was more, that they could amp up
\nthe stakes and move outward. There definitely is a stronger science
\nfiction bent to the show this season, but the heart and soul of the show
\nis still the relationships between those characters.”<\/p>\nWere ther concerns that the final six episodes maybe gave out too much
\ninformation too fast.<\/p>\n“That’s an interesting question,” Frakes says. “We discussed it quite a
\nlot, and we actually cut some back, because there was too much
\ninformation about where we’d come from.<\/p>\n“Those aliens really have to change the way they lead their lives now,
\nwhich is cool.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks to Dottie0062 for this “I found this in a local t.v guide but it was written by Kate O’Hare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2385,5],"tags":[561],"coauthors":[2273],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ronald-d-moore","category-roswell","tag-ron-d-moore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28335,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/28335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}