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Imagining "Star Trek" in the title of Ronald D. Moore's production (which isn't hard to do) would force viewers to conclude that this would be the weakest entry in the long line of "Star Trek" sequel series. Ronald D. Moore's "Sybil Star: Galactica" plays like a badly written version of a "Star Trek" episode called "Mirror, Mirror", where evil counterparts in a reverse, savage universe plot new ways to prey on one another politically and sexually. Ronald D. Moore's production is the left over aftermath of no new ideas left to explore in the "Star Trek" universe which Ron Moore is unwilling to abandon professionally. After Ronald D. Moore himself admitted that he wanted this series to be what he thought "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" failed to be, and after Moore recklessly admitted that he front loaded this show with "Star Trek" cliches, we the viewers have no choice but to not only regard Ronald D. Moore's production as a "Star Trek" sequel series, but also the weakest of the bunch.
Drop a nuclear warhead on all of the "sparkling", fresh ideas of Gene Roddenberry, and you are left with Ronald D. Moore's production. Ron Moore's universe erroneously titled "Battlestar Galactica" is a psychologically exhausted, and badly limping "United Federation Of Planets" that wanders aimlessly in the tattered rags worn by cast members. It is not hard to write in this manner which Ronald D. Moore is writing. It is not hard to turn "Starfleet Command" on its ear, and then claim it is the "Colonial Universe" of the "Battlestar Galactica." This is a form of "Short Hand" writing that Ronald D. Moore is doing, where the easiest way of reaching point B from point A is to not bother at all. Ronald D. Moore's production is a FLEA MARKET. An episode of "Mirror, Mirror" from "Star Trek" spread out over a four hour mini series and 13, one hour segments. Is it any wonder that Ronald D. Moore's production gets more and more watered down, and desperate, with each passing episode?
Ronald D. Moore claims originality in his characters preying on one another politically and sexually, and that they are not freshly scrubbed. Yet, Ridley Scott did it 10,000 times better almost 20 years ago in 1979's "Alien." Where was Ronald D. Moore back then? Not watching Ridley Scott's movie no doubt. "Alien" makes the sexual antics in Ron Moore's series tame in comparison. Moore has yet to outdo Ridley Scott's oral rape of Ripley by Ash with a rolled up newspaper. There are a great many things that Ronald D. Moore claims originality for, yet can be easily pinpointed in other productions, notably "Star Trek." In the corner of the universe that Ronald D. Moore's production takes place, you can easily imagine a devastating "Borg" or "Klingon" attack that would put Laura Roslin and Commander Adama in the same predicament. This is "Star Trek Colorforms" for Ronald D. Moore. Mix & Match ideas and characters from "Star Trek" with character and location names from "Battlestar Galactica." Thus, Ronald D. Moore claims originality in having come up with a new television series.
In the grand scheme of "Star Trek" sequel series, even the weakest entry had a purpose at its core. "Star Trek: Enterprise" (though the production design claims otherwise) explores space 100 years before the 1966 tv series. "Star Trek: Voyager" did a riff on "Battlestar Galactica" and was trying to get back home to Earth. The purpose of "Deep Space Nine" was to guard a worm hole. The "Next Generation" carried on the mission of the original series hundreds of years later. What is the purpose of Ronald D. Moore's series? It has no purpose. Every week the format changes. One week its a soap opera, the next week political intrique, the week after that a "crash landing on a planet plot" that Ronald D. Moore swore he would not do. Ronald D. Moore's series is a SCHIZOPHRENIC ANTHOLOGY, without a core premise. His series is in the same vein as "Love, American Style", "Night Gallery", "Dark Room", "Ray Bradbury Theater", and "Hitchhiker",....stitched and pasted together from stolen "Star Trek" ideas and everything else Ronald D. Moore could salvage from his MEMORY JUNKYARD. The consistent cast members present from week to week are only there to try and CON us into believing that this is NOT an anthology.
Imagine some kind of political and nuclear catastrophe that would wipe out "Starfleet Command" and the "United Federation Of Planets", and leave horny characters plotting against one another in its wake. Replace "Star Trek" with "Battlestar Galactica" in the title, and you have Ronald D. Moore's Sci-Fi Channel series....
THE WEAKEST "STAR TREK" SEQUEL SERIES EVER MADE 
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