Ron Moore Talks Future Seasons of For All Mankind & Whether He’ll Return For the End of Outlander

Ron Moore has created some of television’s most addictive series from Battlestar Galactica to Outlander. SheKnows caught up with Moore exclusively at Comic Con to chat all about the fourth season of his current show For All Mankind, Apple TV’s space hit that spans decades. In the recent For All Mankind season 4 finale, the show yet again, did a huge time jump, expanded their world in the most explosive way, this time going to Mars. We caught up with Moore about all his projects, what he hopes to cover in future seasons of For All Mankind, and of course, the final upcoming season of Outlander, which he created, starring Caitríona Balfe and Sam Heughan, and adapted from Diana Gabaldon’s popular book series. Moore let us in on whether he has any plans to return for Outlander’s eighth and final season. Plus, we took a look back at all of his shows and make him choose between his favorite characters, from which one he’d love to have a whisky with, which he’d send to another planet, and which he’d want to live forever, and which of his shows he wishes he could get one more season to work on. Watch the exclusive video to find out.

In four seasons of For All Mankind, Ed Baldwin and his space fam and gang have been through it. They’ve lost children, moved to the moon, lost friends, moved to Mars, and changed history. Literally. For All Mankind operates on a slightly different historical timeline, where the characters Forrest Gump their way into big historical moments. Plus, there’s Russian spies. Half expecting Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys’s spy characters from The Americans to show up in Mars, and I wouldn’t be mad about it. This finale was game-changing and taught us one thing, men love war no matter what planet they’re on. Season 4 ends on Mars in the year 2012. In season 5, we’ll have to wait and see if Barack Obama will be President? Moore tells us what ground he hopes to cover in future seasons. And whether Ed Baldwin and his beard will survive all the space drama. Just when you think For All Mankind would never kill off a character, they in fact kill off that character. (Hi Karen, bye Karen). So, let’s be honest, Ed is not safe in Moore’s space, which Moore sort of delights in. He also breaks down for us whether there was any division between the writers in killing off Karen last season.

The first question we asked Moore is which of his shows he’d want to go back and visit. “Oh, that’s hard, they’re all my children! But, it would be great to go back and do another season of Battlestar.” Moore says that would be tough though, since it ended so definitively, but he says doing something that took place between seasons would be fun. When we suggest he do a bonus season for all of his shows, he quickly agrees, “A bonus season for them all would be great.” In-between seasons for Battlestar, Outlander and For All Mankind, yes please.

Having created so many amazing shows and characters, we thought it would be fun to get Moore to choose which of his characters he’d want to be stuck on an island with, which he’d send to another planet and which he would clone, and of course, which he’d want to time travel with. We gave him Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan), Claire Fraser (Caitríona Balfe), Ed Baldwin (Joel Kinamman), Kara Thrace (Katee Sackhoff), Adama (Edward James Olmos), and Lee Adama (Jamie Bamber) as options.

He quickly answered who he’d want to send to another planet. “Jamie.” Wait, what?! You’re sending Jamie Fraser to Mars?! Wrong, Jamie. A slight Jamie mix-up, Moore says he meant Lee Adama (played by Jamie Bamber) on Battlestar which makes the most sense. But now, we kind of want to see Jamie Fraser space traveling in an astrokilt. Maybe in space, no one will ask him what’s under his kilt, since gravity won’t exist and we’d see for ourselves. Seriously, kilts won’t do well in space. When it came to which character he’d want to live forever, he quickly said Kara from Battlestar. This was good to hear, since Kara – spoiler alert – died in the Battlestar finale. Who Moore picked for time travel was not a surprise. The time-traveling queen herself, Claire Fraser. Wise move, since she can do it. If he picked Jamie Fraser, they’d probably just run head first into a rock. Seems like Moore left Claire’s better half out in the cold in this game, but worry not, “He’ll be fine! Talk about whisky, he’s got plenty of whisky,” Moore says. This is true.

As for Outlander’s final season, we had to ask Moore if he would be making a cameo and perhaps return for one final episode. “I already made my cameo back in season 1,” Moore laughs. “You never know, would be fun to write one, but I’m not sure if that’s in the cards or not, because I’m not on the staff. But you know, you never say never.” We’d never say never. And that was not a “no.” In fact, that sounds fairly hopeful. One can only hope Moore gets to put his creative input into the final season of the show he helped put on the map.

For those who are anxiously waiting for the second half of Outlander season 7, catch up on the mid-season finale recap here, and watch Balfe and Heughan chat all about their second to last season. Plus, you can revisit Sophie Skelton, David Berry, John Bell, Maril Davis, and Balfe and Heughan at the Outlander season 7 premiere in New York City. All 7 seasons of Outlander are streaming on Starz.

From Jamie Fraser, to Claire Fraser, to Ed Baldwin, to the Adama boys, watch the video to find out exactly who Moore wants to drink whisky with, spend all time with, and which of his show’s finales he knows people are still mad at him about. And of course, only time will tell if Moore will pop up in the credits for Outlander’s final season. For All Mankind is streaming now on Apple TV+.

Before you go, check out the all-time best ‘Outlander’ episodes you need to watch.