Ronald Dowl Moore (born 5 July 1964 in Chowchilla, California) is a two-time Emmy Award-nominated and a Hugo- and Peabody Award-winning American screenwriter and television producer best known for his work on Star Trek and the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series, which he created and runs.

Ronald D. Moore graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Political Science. After college, he moved to Los Angeles in hopes of becoming a working writer. He was two weeks away from joining the United States Navy when Michael Piller, the co-executive producer of Star Trek: The Next Generation, called with good news. His first script, "The Bonding", led to an assignment and a spot on the writing staff in 1989. By the end of the series, he was serving as a producer. The end of TNG saw numerous accolades come Mr. Moore's way. As a member of the production team, he earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Drama Series; and along with writing partner Brannon Braga, a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation for "All Good Things...", the series finale. They would go on to earn Hugo nominations for the first two TNG films, _"Star Trek Generations (1994)_ and _"Star Trek: First Contact (1996)_. They also collaborated on the story for Mission: Impossible II (2000). The end of TNG saw Mr. Moore assume the role of supervising producer on Rick Berman and Michael Piller's character-driven spin-off, "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993). He began by writing the 3rd Season premiere, "The Search, Part I", which saw the introduction of the U.S.S. Defiant. He had originally intended to name Captain Sisko's starship, "Valiant", after the ship mentioned in the 2nd TOS pilot episode, "Where No Man Has Gone Before". But because Star Trek: Voyager was about to premiere, he changed it to "Defiant", in honor of the ship from "The Tholian Web". As two of the most ardent Star Trek fans on DS9's writing staff, Mr. Moore and Rene Echevarria were chosen to write the teleplay for "Trials and Tribble-ations" - DS9's tribute to TOS' 30th Anniversary. Besides bringing Captain Kirk and Captain Sisko together on screen, via some seamless Emmy nominated visual effects, the episode also brought the pair a Hugo nomination. They would go on to write the series penultimate episode, "The Dogs of War", which introduced the new Defiant, formerly the U.S.S. Sao Paulo. The name of the ship and Sisko's line "Hello, ship," were a tribute to the Steve McQueen (I) film, The Sand Pebbles. By the time DS9 ended, he was a co-executive producer and ready to move on to his third Star Trek series. After a two episode stint as a co-executive producer on "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995), Mr. Moore say goodbye to Star Trek. His first job after Star Trek was as a consulting producer on the final season of the Sci-Fi Channel's Fantasy series, G vs. E. Eventually, he made his way to Jason Katim's teen SF/Drama series, "Roswell" (1999), which aired on The WB. He joined TNG's Jonathan Frakes (Commander Riker) as a co-executive producer. Thanks to his work on Roswell, he was able to develop Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern as a pilot for The WB, but it was cancelled before production began. Mr. Moore currently served as a co-executive producer on Roswell as the series moves to UPN for the 2001-2002 television season. He is currently involved in the remake of _"Battlestar Galactica" (2003) (mini)_ for the sci-fi channel (he is writing the script for the mini-series).