Why Ron Moore Killed Captain Kirk

Published: May 20, 2015, 10 p.m.

Ronald D. Moore is best known for rebooting Battlestar Galactica for the post-9/11 era, but he got his start writing on Star Trek: The Next Generation. In fact, he really got his start in science fiction by watching the original Star Trek as a kid growing up in a small town in Northern California. His hero was James T. Kirk, and by extension the man who dreamed up this universe, Gene Roddenberry. But\xa0Moore eventually discovered that\xa0killing your heroes is a right of passing to growing up and\xa0finding your own voice. Moore's\xa0new show is Outlander on the Starz network.\xa0Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices