Early concept designs for the 1979-1980 BATTLESTAR GALACTICA series paint the villanous Cylons in a different light
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Moore talks more GALACTICA

Ronald D. Moore is talking again about his Herculean task of digesting years of shows and two decades of fan love while distilling the BATTLESTAR: GALACTICA franchise into a new mini-series for the SciFi Channel.

Moore, a fan of the show from way back and one of the creative forces in genre entertainment while writing for STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, DEEP SPACE NINE and ROSWELL, recently voiced his ideas on trying to bring back one of the most loved and under appreciated names in science fiction today.

"I'm in the middle of working on the script," Moore said in email exchanges to SciFi Pulse. "I'll have to be vague and give you what won't be a very satisfying answer. The basis of the mini-series will be a retelling of the origin story; that is, the events that cause Galactica and the fugitive fleet to begin their journey. There will be familiar characters from the original show, and new ones as well. I'm trying to flesh out the backstory of what led up to these cataclysmic events as well as round out many of the characters and their relationships. I can tell you that both the studio and the network were very happy with the outline and that things are going exceptionally well with this project so far... Some of the things we WON'T be doing:

"GALACTICA 90210." This will not be a show dedicated to sex and wacky teenage hijinks. BATTLESTAR GALACTICA without a battlestar named Galactica. This has to be one of the craziest rumors I've heard. An all-male cast. Quite the contrary. There will be a strong female component to the show, including more women pilots than in the original."

He also deflected critics who are already out for his blood because he's not doing a direct sequel to the original BATTLESTAR: GALACTICA series.

"I saw more inherently interesting to me as a writer with going back and redoing the initial story and launching a whole new version of GALACTICA than I did with picking up the original narrative years later. That's not to say that there's anything inherently wrong with doing a sequel, it's just not a direction I was interested in pursuing, and as a writer, there has to be something in the material that interests me... In my mind, one of the factors that argued most strongly against doing a sequel, was the fact that Lorne Greene and John Colicos are no longer with us, and hence, any sequel would have to forego using both Adama and Baltar. Yes, you could promote someone else to command Galactica and yes, you could create a new villain, but to me, it's sort of like saying you could do the first TREK movie without Kirk & McCoy as long as you promote someone else to command the Enterprise and create another doctor."

For the full interview, click on the source link above.