Lucy Lawless May Return To BSG Lineup

Number Three might be cooling her heels in a Cylon box somewhere, but that doesn't necessarily mean that fans have seen the last of the fleet's faux reporter.

In a conference call with reporters on Friday, executive producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick revealed that initial plans are underway to possibly bring back actress Lucy Lawless to "Battlestar Galactica," following her successful recurring stint last season.

"It's possible," said Moore, who was talking to reporters about the end of the SciFi Channel series after the upcoming fourth season. "It's in the planning stages. It's one of the things we're talking about."

Also still showing signs of life, despite rumors to the contrary, is the proposed "Battlestar Galactica" prequel spinoff "Caprica," which has been sitting in development hell since its announcement last year. SciFi Channel has not necessarily killed the idea, Eick said, but it's not on anyone's near-future plans either.

"I don't think we know the immediate answer, it's not on the immediate front-burner," Eick said. "No one has said to us definitively that it is dead. It's something we believe in wholeheartedly as it would not only capture a lot of 'Battlestar Galactica' fans, but shore up a whole new audience to the mythology, because it's a very different type of show."

While there has been a plan and path from the start of the show, the journey from the 2003 miniseries pilot to months before the fourth and final season has not always been a smooth one, like the introduction and then suddenly the quick death of a Saggitaron subplot that involved refugees of the highly religious colony on the Galactica.

"It was a misstep," Moore admitted. "It was a storyline we were very excited about, and we really liked it. It had a lot of racial and political overtones to it, which we love to do in the show."

But all anyone can do in a situation like that is chalk it up to "it sounded better on paper" and move on, he said.

"If you're going to swing for the fences and knock it out of the park, there are going to be a few times when you're going to whiff" the ball, Moore said. "It just comes with the territory."

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