Ron Moore blogs tribute to former Star Trek colleague Michael Piller

Ron Moore has updated his blog on the official Battlestar Galactica website with a tribute to his former boss and friend Michael Piller who passed away last week. (Michael Piller served as a writer, producer, and creative consultant to several Star Trek series.):

The last time I saw him was in a story break on “The Dead Zone.” It had been at least five years since I’d broken a story with Michael, and while the show was interesting, and the staff was smart and engaging, I remember mostly being struck by a sense of nostalgia. He still ran a break the same way — broke each and every scene of the entire show down into specific parts, he still had the WGA intern writing each Act in a different color and he still wore a LA Dodgers cap. I had a great time.

He’s gone now, Michael Piller. Tomorrow, I will gather in a place with other people who knew and loved him, along with some who only knew of him, and we will both mourn and celebrate him. His obituary has been written, and I can only add my personal opinion and belief that he was one of the most fundamentally honorable and decent men I have encountered in my life. And he had no malice.

I wish I could do him justice. I wish I knew how to better define and explain the man. But since he loved Shakespeare and since he personally advised me to crib from the Bard whenever possible, it seems only fitting to say to all the world, “This was a man!”

Some have said that Star Trek’s best moments — the last several seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s story arc, etc. — were often due to the influence of Michael Piller.

Ron Moore’s words make that all the more clear.

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