Ronald Dowl Moore is an American screenwriter and television producer. He is best known for his work on Star Trek; on the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series, for which he won a Peabody Award and an Emmy Award; and on Outlander, based on the novels of Diana Gabaldon. In 2019, he created and wrote the series For All Mankind for Apple TV+.
Known For
Credits
Cast Credits
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction (2018)
Guest starring as Writer / Producer - Star Trek Franchise
- Episode 1x02: Outer Space (May 7, 2018)
Guest starring as Executive Producer - Battlestar Galactica + Writer / Producer - Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Episode 1x05: Intelligent Machines (May 28, 2018)
The Real History of Science Fiction (2014)
Guest starring as Executive Producer - Battlestar Galactica (2004-9)
(2 episodes)
Crew Credits
For All Mankind (2019)
Show crew as Creator
(6 episodes)
- Episode 3x01: Polaris (Jun 10, 2022)
- Episode 2x01: Every Little Thing (Feb 19, 2021)
- Episode 1x05: Into the Abyss (Nov 15, 2019)
- Episode 1x03: Nixon's Women (Nov 1, 2019)
- Episode 1x02: He Built the Saturn V (Nov 1, 2019)
- Episode 1x01: Red Moon (Nov 1, 2019)
Show crew as Executive Producer
(6 episodes)
- Episode 3x01: Polaris (Jun 10, 2022)
- Episode 2x01: Every Little Thing (Feb 19, 2021)
- Episode 1x05: Into the Abyss (Nov 15, 2019)
- Episode 1x03: Nixon's Women (Nov 1, 2019)
- Episode 1x02: He Built the Saturn V (Nov 1, 2019)
- Episode 1x01: Red Moon (Nov 1, 2019)
Episode crew as Teleplay
- Episode 1x01: Red Moon (Nov 1, 2019)
Episode crew as Story
- Episode 1x01: Red Moon (Nov 1, 2019)
Episode crew as Writer
(3 episodes)
- Episode 2x08: And Here's to You (Apr 9, 2021)
- Episode 2x01: Every Little Thing (Feb 19, 2021)
- Episode 1x07: Hi Bob (Nov 29, 2019)
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (2017)
Show crew as Creator
Show crew as Executive Producer
(9 episodes)
- Episode 1x10: Kill All Others (Mar 19, 2018)
- Episode 1x09: Safe and Sound (Mar 12, 2018)
- Episode 1x08: Autofac (Mar 5, 2018)
- Episode 1x07: The Father Thing (Feb 26, 2018)
- Episode 1x06: Human Is (Oct 29, 2017)
- Episode 1x05: Real Life (Oct 15, 2017)
- Episode 1x04: Crazy Diamond (Oct 8, 2017)
- Episode 1x03: The Commuter (Oct 1, 2017)
- Episode 1x02: Impossible Planet (Sep 24, 2017)
Episode crew as Writer
- Episode 1x05: Real Life (Oct 15, 2017)
Outlander (2014)
Show crew as Executive Producer
(21 episodes)
- Episode 6x08: I Am Not Alone (May 1, 2022)
- Episode 6x07: Sticks and Stones (Apr 24, 2022)
- Episode 6x06: The World Turned Upside Down (Apr 10, 2022)
- Episode 6x05: Give Me Liberty (Apr 3, 2022)
- Episode 6x04: Hour of the Wolf (Mar 27, 2022)
- Episode 6x03: Temperance (Mar 20, 2022)
- Episode 6x02: Allegiance (Mar 13, 2022)
- Episode 6x01: Echoes (Mar 6, 2022)
- Episode 5x12: Never My Love (May 10, 2020)
- Episode 5x11: Journeycake (May 3, 2020)
- Episode 5x10: Mercy Shall Follow Me (Apr 26, 2020)
- Episode 5x09: Monsters and Heroes (Apr 19, 2020)
- Episode 5x08: Famous Last Words (Apr 12, 2020)
- Episode 5x07: The Ballad of Roger Mac (Mar 29, 2020)
- Episode 5x06: Better to Marry Than Burn (Mar 22, 2020)
- Episode 5x05: Perpetual Adoration (Mar 15, 2020)
- Episode 5x04: The Company We Keep (Mar 8, 2020)
- Episode 5x03: Free Will (Mar 1, 2020)
- Episode 5x02: Between Two Fires (Feb 23, 2020)
- Episode 5x01: The Fiery Cross (Feb 16, 2020)
- Episode 3x01: The Battle Joined (Sep 10, 2017)
Show crew as Developer
(21 episodes)
- Episode 6x08: I Am Not Alone (May 1, 2022)
- Episode 6x07: Sticks and Stones (Apr 24, 2022)
- Episode 6x06: The World Turned Upside Down (Apr 10, 2022)
- Episode 6x05: Give Me Liberty (Apr 3, 2022)
- Episode 6x04: Hour of the Wolf (Mar 27, 2022)
- Episode 6x03: Temperance (Mar 20, 2022)
- Episode 6x02: Allegiance (Mar 13, 2022)
- Episode 6x01: Echoes (Mar 6, 2022)
- Episode 5x12: Never My Love (May 10, 2020)
- Episode 5x11: Journeycake (May 3, 2020)
- Episode 5x10: Mercy Shall Follow Me (Apr 26, 2020)
- Episode 5x09: Monsters and Heroes (Apr 19, 2020)
- Episode 5x08: Famous Last Words (Apr 12, 2020)
- Episode 5x07: The Ballad of Roger Mac (Mar 29, 2020)
- Episode 5x06: Better to Marry Than Burn (Mar 22, 2020)
- Episode 5x05: Perpetual Adoration (Mar 15, 2020)
- Episode 5x04: The Company We Keep (Mar 8, 2020)
- Episode 5x03: Free Will (Mar 1, 2020)
- Episode 5x02: Between Two Fires (Feb 23, 2020)
- Episode 5x01: The Fiery Cross (Feb 16, 2020)
- Episode 3x01: The Battle Joined (Sep 10, 2017)
Episode crew as Writer
(5 episodes)
- Episode 3x01: The Battle Joined (Sep 10, 2017)
- Episode 1x16: To Ransom a Man's Soul (May 30, 2015)
- Episode 1x08: Both Sides Now (Sep 27, 2014)
- Episode 1x02: Castle Leoch (Aug 16, 2014)
- Episode 1x01: Sassenach (Aug 9, 2014)
Episode crew as Teleplay
- Episode 2x01: Through a Glass, Darkly (Apr 9, 2016)
Caprica (2010)
Show crew as Developer
(18 episodes)
- Episode 1x18: Apotheosis (Jan 4, 2011)
- Episode 1x17: Here Be Dragons (Jan 4, 2011)
- Episode 1x16: The Heavens Will Rise (Jan 4, 2011)
- Episode 1x15: The Dirteaters (Jan 4, 2011)
- Episode 1x14: Blowback (Jan 4, 2011)
- Episode 1x13: False Labor (Oct 26, 2010)
- Episode 1x12: Things We Lock Away (Oct 19, 2010)
- Episode 1x11: Retribution (Oct 12, 2010)
- Episode 1x10: Unvanquished (Oct 5, 2010)
- Episode 1x09: End of Line (Mar 26, 2010)
- Episode 1x08: Ghosts in the Machine (Mar 19, 2010)
- Episode 1x07: The Imperfections of Memory (Mar 12, 2010)
- Episode 1x06: Know Thy Enemy (Mar 5, 2010)
- Episode 1x05: There Is Another Sky (Feb 26, 2010)
- Episode 1x04: Gravedancing (Feb 19, 2010)
- Episode 1x03: The Reins of a Waterfall (Feb 5, 2010)
- Episode 1x02: Rebirth (Jan 29, 2010)
- Episode 1x01: Pilot (Jan 22, 2010)
Show crew as Executive Producer
Show crew as Creator
Episode crew as Writer
- Episode 1x01: Pilot (Jan 22, 2010)
Episode crew as Director
- Episode 1x03: The Reins of a Waterfall (Feb 5, 2010)
Virtuality (2009)
Show crew as Creator
Show crew as Executive Producer
Episode crew as Story
- Episode 1x01: Pilot (Jun 26, 2009)
Battlestar Galactica: Razor Flashbacks (2007)
Show crew as Developer
Show crew as Executive Producer
Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Show crew as Executive Producer
Show crew as Creator
(84 episodes)
- Episode S04 Special: The Plan (Jan 10, 2010)
- Episode 4x20: Daybreak, Part 2 (Mar 20, 2009)
- Episode 4x19: Daybreak, Part 1 (Mar 13, 2009)
- Episode 4x18: Islanded in a Stream of Stars (Mar 6, 2009)
- Episode 4x17: Someone to Watch Over Me (Feb 27, 2009)
- Episode 4x16: Deadlock (Feb 20, 2009)
- Episode 4x15: No Exit (Feb 13, 2009)
- Episode 4x14: Blood on the Scales (Feb 6, 2009)
- Episode 4x13: The Oath (Jan 30, 2009)
- Episode 4x12: A Disquiet Follows My Soul (Jan 23, 2009)
- Episode 4x11: Sometimes a Great Notion (Jan 16, 2009)
- Episode 4x10: Revelations (Jun 13, 2008)
- Episode 4x09: The Hub (Jun 6, 2008)
- Episode 4x08: Sine Qua Non (May 30, 2008)
- Episode 4x07: Guess What's Coming to Dinner? (May 16, 2008)
- Episode 4x06: Faith (May 9, 2008)
- Episode 4x05: The Road Less Traveled (May 2, 2008)
- Episode 4x04: Escape Velocity (Apr 25, 2008)
- Episode 4x03: The Ties That Bind (Apr 18, 2008)
- Episode 4x02: Six of One (Apr 11, 2008)
- Episode 4x01: He That Believeth in Me (Apr 4, 2008)
- Episode S03 Special: Razor (Nov 24, 2007)
- Episode 3x20: Crossroads, Part 2 (Mar 25, 2007)
- Episode 3x19: Crossroads, Part 1 (Mar 18, 2007)
- Episode 3x18: The Son Also Rises (Mar 11, 2007)
- Episode 3x17: Maelstrom (Mar 4, 2007)
- Episode 3x16: Dirty Hands (Feb 25, 2007)
- Episode 3x15: A Day in the Life (Feb 18, 2007)
- Episode 3x14: The Woman King (Feb 11, 2007)
- Episode 3x13: Taking a Break from All Your Worries (Jan 28, 2007)
- Episode 3x12: Rapture (Jan 21, 2007)
- Episode 3x11: The Eye of Jupiter (Dec 15, 2006)
- Episode 3x10: The Passage (Dec 8, 2006)
- Episode 3x09: Unfinished Business (Dec 1, 2006)
- Episode 3x08: Hero (Nov 17, 2006)
- Episode 3x07: A Measure of Salvation (Nov 10, 2006)
- Episode 3x06: Torn (Nov 3, 2006)
- Episode 3x05: Collaborators (Oct 27, 2006)
- Episode 3x04: Exodus, Part 2 (Oct 20, 2006)
- Episode 3x03: Exodus, Part 1 (Oct 13, 2006)
- Episode 3x02: Precipice (Oct 6, 2006)
- Episode 3x01: Occupation (Oct 6, 2006)
- Episode 2x20: Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 2 (Mar 10, 2006)
- Episode 2x19: Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 1 (Mar 3, 2006)
- Episode 2x18: Downloaded (Feb 24, 2006)
- Episode 2x17: The Captain's Hand (Feb 17, 2006)
- Episode 2x16: Sacrifice (Feb 10, 2006)
- Episode 2x15: Scar (Feb 3, 2006)
- Episode 2x14: Black Market (Jan 27, 2006)
- Episode 2x13: Epiphanies (Jan 20, 2006)
- Episode 2x12: Resurrection Ship, Part 2 (Jan 13, 2006)
- Episode 2x11: Resurrection Ship, Part 1 (Jan 6, 2006)
- Episode 2x10: Pegasus (Sep 23, 2005)
- Episode 2x09: Flight of the Phoenix (Sep 16, 2005)
- Episode 2x08: Final Cut (Sep 9, 2005)
- Episode 2x07: Home, Part 2 (Aug 26, 2005)
- Episode 2x06: Home, Part 1 (Aug 19, 2005)
- Episode 2x05: The Farm (Aug 12, 2005)
- Episode 2x04: Resistance (Aug 5, 2005)
- Episode 2x03: Fragged (Jul 29, 2005)
- Episode 2x02: Valley of Darkness (Jul 22, 2005)
- Episode 2x01: Scattered (Jul 15, 2005)
- Episode 1x13: Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part 2 (Apr 1, 2005)
- Episode 1x12: Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part 1 (Mar 25, 2005)
- Episode 1x11: Colonial Day (Mar 18, 2005)
- Episode 1x10: The Hand of God (Mar 11, 2005)
- Episode 1x09: Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down (Mar 4, 2005)
- Episode 1x08: Flesh and Bone (Feb 25, 2005)
- Episode 1x07: Six Degrees of Separation (Feb 18, 2005)
- Episode 1x06: Litmus (Feb 11, 2005)
- Episode 1x05: You Can't Go Home Again (Feb 4, 2005)
- Episode 1x04: Act of Contrition (Jan 28, 2005)
- Episode 1x03: Bastille Day (Jan 21, 2005)
- Episode 1x02: Water (Jan 14, 2005)
- Episode 1x01: 33 (Jan 14, 2005)
- Episode S01 Special: Battlestar Galactica: The Miniseries (2) (Dec 10, 2003)
- Episode S01 Special: Battlestar Galactica: The Miniseries (1) (Dec 8, 2003)
- Episode S04 Special: Battlestar Galactica: The Last Frakkin' Special (Mar 16, 2009)
- Episode S04 Special: Battlestar Galactica: The Top 10 Things You Need to Know (Jan 11, 2009)
- Episode S04 Special: Battlestar Galactica: Revealed (Mar 28, 2008)
- Episode S04 Special: Battlestar Galactica: The Phenomenon (Mar 28, 2008)
- Episode S03 Special: Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far (Aug 16, 2006)
- Episode S01 Special: Battlestar Galactica: The Series Lowdown (Jan 14, 2005)
- Episode S01 Special: Battlestar Galactica: The Lowdown (Nov 26, 2003)
Episode crew as Writer
(10 episodes)
- Episode 4x20: Daybreak, Part 2 (Mar 20, 2009)
- Episode 4x19: Daybreak, Part 1 (Mar 13, 2009)
- Episode 4x12: A Disquiet Follows My Soul (Jan 23, 2009)
- Episode 3x02: Precipice (Oct 6, 2006)
- Episode 3x01: Occupation (Oct 6, 2006)
- Episode 2x19: Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 1 (Mar 3, 2006)
- Episode 2x12: Resurrection Ship, Part 2 (Jan 13, 2006)
- Episode 2x07: Home, Part 2 (Aug 26, 2005)
- Episode 1x02: Water (Jan 14, 2005)
- Episode 1x01: 33 (Jan 14, 2005)
Episode crew as Teleplay
(2 episodes)
- Episode 1x13: Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part 2 (Apr 1, 2005)
- Episode 1x12: Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part 1 (Mar 25, 2005)
Episode crew as Director
- Episode 4x12: A Disquiet Follows My Soul (Jan 23, 2009)
Carnivàle (2003)
Show crew as Executive Producer
- Episode 1x01: Milfay (Sep 14, 2003)
Episode crew as Writer
(3 episodes)
- Episode 1x12: The Day That Was the Day (Nov 30, 2003)
- Episode 1x06: Pick a Number (Oct 19, 2003)
- Episode 1x02: After the Ball Is Over (Sep 21, 2003)
Roswell (1999)
Show crew as Executive Producer
Episode crew as Writer
(9 episodes)
- Episode 3x18: Graduation (May 14, 2002)
- Episode 3x14: Chant Down Babylon (Feb 26, 2002)
- Episode 3x11: I Married an Alien (Jan 29, 2002)
- Episode 3x06: To Have and To Hold (Nov 13, 2001)
- Episode 3x02: Michael, The Guys and The Great Snapple Caper (Oct 16, 2001)
- Episode 2x17: Cry Your Name (Apr 23, 2001)
- Episode 2x13: Disturbing Behavior (Feb 5, 2001)
- Episode 2x09: Max in the City (Nov 27, 2000)
- Episode 2x02: Ask Not (Oct 9, 2000)
Episode crew as Teleplay
- Episode 2x14: How the Other Half Lives (Feb 19, 2001)
Star Trek: Voyager (1995)
Show crew as Co-Executive Producer
Episode crew as Writer
- Episode 6x02: Survival Instinct (Sep 29, 1999)
Episode crew as Story
- Episode 6x03: Barge of the Dead (Oct 6, 1999)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
Episode crew as Teleplay
(14 episodes)
- Episode 7x24: The Dogs of War (May 26, 1999)
- Episode 7x10: It's Only a Paper Moon (Dec 30, 1998)
- Episode 6x25: The Sound of Her Voice (Jun 10, 1998)
- Episode 5x25: In the Cards (Jun 9, 1997)
- Episode 5x16: Doctor Bashir, I Presume (Feb 24, 1997)
- Episode 5x11: The Darkness and the Light (Jan 6, 1997)
- Episode 5x06: Trials and Tribble-ations (Nov 4, 1996)
- Episode 4x22: For the Cause (May 6, 1996)
- Episode 4x18: Rules of Engagement (Apr 8, 1996)
- Episode 4x10: Our Man Bashir (Nov 27, 1995)
- Episode 4x06: Rejoined (Oct 30, 1995)
- Episode 3x13: Life Support (Feb 5, 1995)
- Episode 3x03: The House of Quark (Oct 16, 1994)
- Episode 3x01: The Search, Part I (Sep 26, 1994)
Episode crew as Writer
(15 episodes)
- Episode 7x22: Tacking Into the Wind (May 12, 1999)
- Episode 7x19: Strange Bedfellows (Apr 21, 1999)
- Episode 7x16: Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges (Mar 3, 1999)
- Episode 7x07: Once More Unto the Breach (Nov 11, 1998)
- Episode 7x04: Take Me Out to the Holosuite (Oct 21, 1998)
- Episode 6x22: Valiant (May 6, 1998)
- Episode 6x16: Change of Heart (Mar 4, 1998)
- Episode 6x11: Waltz (Jan 8, 1998)
- Episode 6x07: You Are Cordially Invited (Nov 10, 1997)
- Episode 6x02: Rocks and Shoals (Oct 6, 1997)
- Episode 5x21: Soldiers of the Empire (Apr 28, 1997)
- Episode 5x03: Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places (Oct 14, 1996)
- Episode 4x15: Sons of Mogh (Feb 12, 1996)
- Episode 3x21: The Die is Cast (May 7, 1995)
- Episode 3x09: Defiant (Nov 27, 1994)
Episode crew as Story
- Episode 4x12: Paradise Lost (Jan 8, 1996)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Episode crew as Writer
(14 episodes)
- Episode 7x26: All Good Things... (2) (May 23, 1994)
- Episode 7x25: All Good Things... (1) (May 23, 1994)
- Episode 7x20: Journey's End (Mar 28, 1994)
- Episode 7x12: The Pegasus (Jan 10, 1994)
- Episode 6x15: Tapestry (Feb 15, 1993)
- Episode 6x04: Relics (Oct 12, 1992)
- Episode 5x24: The Next Phase (May 18, 1992)
- Episode 5x19: The First Duty (Mar 30, 1992)
- Episode 5x01: Redemption II (Sep 23, 1991)
- Episode 4x26: Redemption (Jun 17, 1991)
- Episode 4x25: In Theory (Jun 3, 1991)
- Episode 4x02: Family (Oct 1, 1990)
- Episode 3x10: The Defector (Jan 1, 1990)
- Episode 3x05: The Bonding (Oct 23, 1989)
Episode crew as Teleplay
(13 episodes)
- Episode 7x16: Thine Own Self (Feb 14, 1994)
- Episode 7x05: Gambit, Part II (Oct 18, 1993)
- Episode 6x26: Descent (Jun 21, 1993)
- Episode 6x23: Rightful Heir (May 17, 1993)
- Episode 6x13: Aquiel (Feb 1, 1993)
- Episode 6x10: Chain of Command, Part I (Dec 14, 1992)
- Episode 5x16: Ethics (Mar 2, 1992)
- Episode 5x05: Disaster (Oct 21, 1991)
- Episode 4x15: First Contact (Feb 18, 1991)
- Episode 4x11: Data's Day (Jan 7, 1991)
- Episode 4x07: Reunion (Nov 5, 1990)
- Episode 3x17: Sins of the Father (Mar 19, 1990)
- Episode 3x15: Yesterday's Enterprise (Feb 19, 1990)
Episode crew as Story
- Episode 6x20: The Chase (Apr 26, 1993)