Ron Moore's AOL chats
Abbr.:	RDMAOL
Created by:	Ronald D. Moore & The Internet
Production dates:	c. 1997-1999
Episodes:	129 regular episodes 1 "lost" episode (130)
The cast in Season 1
The cast in Season 2

This article is about the series. You may also be looking for the chat known only as "raolchat" or fruit.

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"Stop moving my chats."

- Ronald D. Moore, 2372

Ron Moore's AOL chats (formally, the letters of St. Ron to the Trekkians) are a series of ancient texts carbon-dated between 1997 and 1999, composed of the ramblings of Ronald D. Moore (occasionally under his alias, Ronald B. Moore). In them, Moore humorously avoided answering any questions posed, implicated Brannon Braga in all of Trek's mistakes, and revealed which of the DS9 crew were cylons.

In a historical irony, these chats would be later invoked to settle the most fundamental theological disputes among Star Trek fans, such as whether "In the Pale Moonlight" was a reference to Batman. Ronotheistic Trekkies would add Moore's opinions on everything from Alpha Jem'Hadar to Ziyal on an online encyclopedia.

Contents 1 Summation 2 Allegedly memorable quotes 3 Background Infotainment 4 Apocry-phail 5 See also

Summation Edit

The show was known for its complex characters and storylines, engaging battle scenes and darker (less Utopian) atmosphere. Unlike its predecessors Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation, AOL chats tended to avoid an episodic format for most of its run and instead featured multiple-episode story arcs. It tended to deal with subjects never before dealt with in any real depth by Star Trek; subjects such as who started the US Civil War, Monica Lewinsky, and why all female characters on Star Trek were sex kittens.

Allegedly memorable quotes Edit

"Kirk's death? Braga. Scotty thinking Kirk was alive in "Relics"? Braga. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier? Braga."

Ron 47:47

"<Ok Ron, you can answer this once and for all. Was the USS Melbourne a Nebula-class or Excelsior-class?>"
"This was not the intention. We saw it as the Borg cube."

Ron 3:14

"<What's the D. stand for?>"
"D–Badass"

Ron 108:7

"I think we all know who that shuttlecraft was named after..."

Ron 75:14

Background Infotainment Edit

• In perhaps the biggest mistake in Star Trek, the writers misspelled "Aquiel" as "Acquiel".
• Watch closely in the Red Alert scene. A crewman appears to be chewing gum in the corridoor!
• It would later be revealed that Odo was a changeling during the events of this episode.
• In this episode and "The Empath", Leonard Nimoy has some serious nasal congestion.
• 3 spin-offs of this series, starring Ira Steven Behr, Brannon Braga and Michael Piller would be created, but these were all cancelled after the first chatisode.
• The alternate reality episode, 20 15 10 questions with J.J. Abrams would rip off the exact plot of this series.

Apocry-phailEdit

• In Star Trek Online, the player can type "RDMAOL" into the chat window.

See also Edit

• Love Boat: The Next Generation
• Transphasic Chroniton Torpedoes
• Fraggle Rock