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Ronald D. Moore is a native of Chowchilla - a small town in central California. After studying government at Cornell University, he travelled to L.A. and went through a series of odd jobs before selling his first professional script, "The Bonding" to "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in 1989.
With this Moore got his start in the entertainment business on the writing staff of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and was eventaully promoted to producer. During his tenure there, he wrote or co-wrote 27 episodes, including the two-hour series finale "All Good Things..." for which he won a Hugo Award for in 1994. That same year, Moore was also nominated for Best Dramatic Series.
In 1994, Moore joined the writing staff of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" as supervising producer and was elevated to co-executive producer in 1995. Moore would spend five seasons on "Deep Space Nine" until the end of its successful run in 1999. He was briefly an executive consultant on the critically acclaimed "Good vs. Evil," which aired on the Sci-Fi Channel, before joining the staff at "Roswell" as executive producer. Moore worked for two seasons on the aliens in high school drama, taking over the reins as show-runner from creator Jason Katims in its final year.
In the fall of 2002, he was named show-runner and executive producer of HBO's newest one-hour drama, "Carnivale" slated to air in fall 2003.
Moore currently lives in Los Angeles.
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Carnival Fact
Johnny Eck, AKA the Half Man, was born in Baltimore in 1911. He had no legs. In 1932 he had a role in Tod Browning's film, Freaks. He died in 1991.
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