Wanna know more about what the Battlestar Galactica prequel TV series, Caprica? Well all you had to do was ask producers David Eick and Ronald D. Moore, who helmed BSG to the small screen and through its four-year run, and who will be concentrating on Caprica after BSG goes off the air after its fourth season. According to Eick, Caprica is like the movie “American Beauty”, while Moore went for the more soap opera-ish “Dallas”, which is no surprise since, well, isn’t pretty much everything about BSG incredibly soap opera-ish?

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“Caprica is a story that Ron Moore and I concocted with [co-executive producer] Remi Aubuchon, and we’re casting as we speak,” Moore said in an interview at SCI FI Channel’s upfront presentation to advertisers in New York on March 18. “I’m very excited about that. If Battlestar Galactica is Black Hawk Down, I would say that Caprica is American Beauty. Caprica is all about the inner lives of the people on a planet and how their personal relationships as well as their professional relationships inform what will become the creation of the Cylons.”

Moore, a former Star Trek writer and producer, said that Caprica is not a show along the lines of any Trek spinoff series. “It’s a different animal altogether,” he said in a separate interview. “Unlike those shows, which are all riffs on the same notion of what Star Trek was, Caprica is really a completely different kind of genre. We’re trying to do something different.”

Instead of Galactica’s action-adventure space-based war show, Caprica will tell a story that takes place before any of the wars happened. “This is really more of a sci-fi Dallas,” Moore said. “It’s a political story, a family story. It’s about the creation of the Cylons, and it’s about a company. It’s planet-based. It’s very character-oriented, very serialized and very much about the characters. It’s a whole different genre, and that’s what makes it exciting.”

Wow, sounds … er, well, to be perfectly honest with you, it sounds like something that’s going to get cancelled pretty fast. Seriously? I hope they’re kidding about this, but it doesn’t sound like it. Does Ron Moore have a contract with the Sci Fi Channel that he’s trying to get out of or something?

Production on the two-hour back-door pilot starts this Spring.