In case you did not see it, last week’s CSI was a very funny episode about a murder at a SF convention in Las Vegas. The convention was focused on the fictional show “Astro Quest”, a pretty obvious parody of the original Star Trek (we even had dream sequences based on two classic Trek episodes).
Ron Moore, producer of the recent Battlestar Galactica series (and former producer for Star Trek: The Next Generation), as well as actors Kate Vernon and Grace Park from the show appeared in the episode (Moore and Park had cameos, Vernon had a featured guest appearance).
In the episode, the victim was a TV producer who was going to “reimagine” Astro Quest for a new generation of viewers, making it more gritty and realistic. After the producer made his pitch to the convention attendees, Ron Moore made his (very brief) cameo, video below.
This was a GREAT in-joke, for those who remember the fan reaction that Moore’s own gritty and realistic “reimagining” of Battlestar Galactica initially received from the original show’s fans.
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UPDATE: OK, I found the preview for this episode, and I have to embed it as well:
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