languatron
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Ronald D. Moore's scriptwriting chores on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and "GINO" proves that his attempts at writing space fantasy never get beyond Earth's atmosphere. Moore LACKS the imagination and innate gifts necessary to make a movie or tv show set in outer space a truly mind blowing experience. In any Roald D. Moore script that unfortunately gets commited to film, you will never come across fantastic worlds, incredible aliens, or imaginative and ground breaking hardware. Instead, you will come across a fairly CONSERVATIVE and MUNDANE attempt at depicting life in outer space that collapses under its own weight of ANTI-IMAGINATION. "GINO" lacks the validity to be a self proclaimed excursion into outer space, because due to the STAGGERING LACK OF IMAGINATION from both Ronald D. Moore and David Eick, "GINO" NEVER GETS OFF THE GROUND and beyond Earth's atmosphere. "GINO" suffers from CONSERVATIVE, play it safe scriptwriting aggrevated by ILLUSION DESTROYING location shooting and ILLUSION DESTROYING wardrobe. How is the audience supposed to believe that "GINO" is set in outer space when every supposed alien world they land on looks like location shooting in VANCOUVER on a sunny afternoon with present day clothing from "SEARS?"
Even in Ronald D. Moore's scripts from "Star Trek: The Next Generation", you will NEVER come across a mind blowing excursion into outer space. Ronald D. Moore treats space fantasy as if it is no different from a soap opera, medical drama, or cop show. This is Ronald D. Moore's GREATEST WEAKNESS. Ronald D. Moore throws out the infinite possibilities of space fantasy by scaling the genre down to fit his FINITE PARAMETERS as a CONSERVATIVE SCRIPTWRITER. Ronald D. Moore writes CONSERVATIVE, SERVICEABLE, PLAY IT SAFE CLAP-TRAP that repeatedly FAILS to transport television viewers beyond Earth's atmosphere and to sights hundreds of light years away. In "Star Trek: The Next Generation", the most we ever got from Ronald D. Moore is bottle shows with characters spewing TECHNO-BABBLE. "Star Trek" shouldn't have been about soap opera-esque, interpersonal relationship CLAP-TRAP that excluded the wonders of outer space in the process. Yet, that is EXACTLY what Ronald D. Moore delivered on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" EVERY SINGLE TIME he had a "Star Trek" script assignment. And that is EXACTLY what he is delivering on "GINO."
The only thing the television audience has learned from Ronald d. Moore, is just how INCOMPATIBLE Moore is as a scriptwriter for all things Space Fantasy. The wonders of the genre JUST NEVER GET OFF THE GROUND when Ronald D. Moore ATTEMPTS to tackle the genre. His "Wonder Crap" tv show known as GINO has had "California license plated humvees" parked outside office buildings in Vancouver on sunny days while Katee Sackhoff walks around in a present day military uniform. WHERE IS THE SPACE FANTASY in all of this?
 GINO has its feet PLANTED FIRMLY ON EARTH (both literally and figuratively) right along side all
other tv shows NOT SET IN OUTER SPACE, such as "West Wing", "Desperate Housewives", and
"Las Vegas."
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