As someone who was deeply involved with my favourite ever TV show (Star Trek: Deep Space 9) and the writer of my favourite Star Trek film (First Contact) as well as the magnificent Battlestar Galactica reboot, when the name Ronald D Moore was mentioned a few years back as being involved in the then red-hot live-action Star Wars television series it certainly made me sit up and take notice.
As history tells us, that series went the way of the Buro but now Moore gives us a peek into the series that never was (our very own Star Trek: Phase 2 if you like) and the working relationship he had with a very actively involved George Lucas.
“I did, for a bit of time, work on what was going to be a Star Wars live-action series. We’d go gather at Skywalker Ranch periodically, every couple of months, and break stories and write scripts for this proposed series that George was interested in. And George was in the ring with us every day. And it was a fascinating, amazing experience. There was George Lucas and we’d be arguing stories and there was a point where I found myself in an intense argument with George about what Darth Vader would or would not do, and part of my brain kind of went, ‘What the hell are you doing? Are you really going to argue with George Lucas about what Darth Vader would do?'”
