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" This week, Starz gave the thumbs up to an adaptation of the Outlander book series written and executive produced by Ronald D. Moore. To some sci-fi fans, that&amp;#039;s very exciting news. To the rest, it should be. Moore was a writer on three different Star Treks (Deep Space Nine, The Next Generation, and Voyager) before developing his magnum opus: Battlestar Galactica. Those who know his name, know he&amp;#039;s a sci-fi genius. And they know he&amp;#039;ll make something spectacular out of Diana Gabaldon&amp;#039;s story of a WWII nurse mysteriously transported back in time. What they likely don&amp;#039;t know is much else about the guy. That&amp;#039;s why we&amp;#039;ve produced this D. Moore dossier. Name: Ronald Dowl Moore DOB: Juy 5, 1964 Education: Cornell University dropout Family: Married to Terry Dresbach and has three children Smoker?: Only socially Job before TV writing: Receptionist at an animal hospital Big break: On a tour of The Next Generation&amp;#039;s set he handed a spec script to the tour guide, who happened to be Gene Roddenberry&amp;#039;s assistant. After a series of fortunate events, the script was read, turned into a season-three episode, and Moore was given the chance to write another. Over the next six years, he was hired as a script editor and promoted all the way up to producer.  From there: After the end of The Next Generation, Moore joined the production staff of Deep Space Nine, where he wrote many episodes that focused on Kilngons. When DS9 ended in 1999, Moore migrated over the Voyager. After writing only two episodes, he left. Before Battlestar: After his Star Trek stints, Moore worked on the Syfy show Good vs. Evil, the WB show Roswell, the HBO show Carniv\u00E0le. Battlerstar: In 2002 Moore began working on an update of the old Battlestar Galactica series. The plan was for a four-hour mini-series with hopes of turning it into more. Those hopes became reality in Ocotober 2005, when the BSG series debuted in the United Kingdom. Over the next five years Moore won a Hugo Award and a Peabody award for writing on the show. He was also nominated for an Emmy. Since Battlestar: Moore&amp;#039;s work since the end of BSG has included the show&amp;#039;s spin-off Caprica, a failed Fox pilot called Virtually, a scrapped script for The Thing, a remake of Wild Wild West for CBS, a show described as &amp;quot;Harry Potter for adults,&amp;quot; and a TV version of the 2001 Heath Ledger film A Knight&amp;#039;s Tale.  Uncredited cameos: Holodeck Nightclub Patron in Star Trek: First Contact; Patron in Vic&amp;#039;s Lounge in an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; Man with Magazine in Battlestar Galactica. Credited cameo: Ken Reynolds in an episode of Portlandia that was about finding the real Ronald D. Moore.      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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