Star Trek: Voyager holds a very special honor or shame, and it’s the only series that Ronald D. Moore didn’t want to work on during his time in the franchise. Coming to Star Trek: The Next Generation, he wrote some of the series’ best episodes as a young man before bringing the same kind of genius to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Still, “The Next Generation” and “Deep Space Nine” were syndicated shows. The work experience there was very different than at Voyager, for example. This show ended up being the linchpin of the UPN catalog of shows. As a new station, they did everything they could to attract attention and gain viewers. They needed a hit from “Voyager” more than shows like “The Next Generation” or “Deep Space Nine.”

These latter two shows were not owned by a network but were instead syndicated to the highest bidder. Their future was already secured. So the lack of certainty affected Voyager’s work experience a little differently. When Moore briefly landed on Voyager in season six, he experienced culture shock. He didn’t stay long, but he had a great idea.

An idea that would have destroyed his interpretation of Battlestar Galactica. Speaking to CinemaBlend’s Mick Joest, Moore revealed that he almost turned Voyager into Battlestar Galactica.

“I was only on Voyager for a few months. But during this time a storyline was developed which was that for a time Voyager began to escort some other ships, some alien ships, through a region. I don’t remember if it was a war-torn region or if it was some kind of spatial phenomenon or something like that. And I remember specifically saying, “Oh, you could build a ragtag fleet here,” like (Battlestar) Galactica did, “And maybe this” becomes something you do over multiple episodes . There’s a whole community here.’”

Fans may remember that the end of season five and the beginning of season six was the Equinox two-parter. It showed a second Federation ship found in the Delta Quadrant that had arrived shortly before Voyager. But instead of having a similar experience, they encountered much more hostility and were unable to farm as many resources.

This caused the ship to rely on aliens for fuel. They would capture a particular alien and use its body as fuel for their engines. This of course led to the two ships coming into conflict with each other. Still, it seems like Moore wasn’t interested in the end. In the original ending of the series, the Equinox is destroyed and the surviving crew are integrated into the crew of Voyager (though we never see them on screen again).

Still, it seems as if Moore wanted to keep the Equinox and have the two ships continue together through the Delta Quadrant, picking up more wayward ships along the way. That, if you recall, is the broad premise of his Battlestar Galactica reboot. Ships bound together for a common purpose, traveling the stars.

In fact, in the second season of the series, Galactica finds another of its ships, the Pegasus. It was also a similar plot idea to Equinox, but instead of them killing aliens for fuel, their conflict revolved around the travesties that the crew of the Pegasus got away with.

It’s very likely that if Moore had lasted through Voyager’s seventh season, the Battlestar Galactica reboot probably would have been very different, if it had been done at all. Finally, it looks like Moore would have used many of his ideas for the reboot of the Voyager series if he had stayed.