Memory Alpha:AOL chats/Ronald D. Moore/ron095.txt

Subject: Answers Date: Wed, Mar 25, 1998 21:26 EST From: RonDMoore Message-id: <1998032602272701.VAA05053@ladder01.news.aol.com>

<<I have a question about the mindset you and your colleagues have now. I would imagine that with the end of the series beginning to come into sight, you all are thinking about your post-Trek professional futures, and/or thinking about giving this a big sendoff, and/or maybe even relieved that this is coming to an end before profound creative fatigue sets in. Are you looking around at each other and starting to say goodbye? Is it close enough among your team to make that feel like aloss, or is it jus time to move on?>>

Although we do discuss the post-DS9 era from time to time and what it will mean to our careers, we've been shying away from saying good-bye or dealing with the emotional content of what the end of the show will mean to us personally. It's just not that time yet.

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I like the Dominion War, I think it's helped to deepen and broaden the show and that it's brought a breath of fresh air into the entire Trek franchise. I think it's given us an opportunity to do different kinds of storytelling and that it's allowed us to explore the characters in new and interesting ways. I've always found the various arguments about what Trek is and is not supposed to be "about" to be pretentious and vaguely ridiculous. Trek is "about" a lot of things and different people watch the show for different reasons. Bottom line -- if you hate the direction we're going in, don't watch.