It appears that something good may come of this strike for us viewers. According to Aint-It-Cool News, the latest TV Guide is reporting that the BSG prequel, Caprica, may be given a go.

The new “Sci-Fi Preview” edition of TV Guide reports (on page 28) that the desperately script-starved SciFi Channel may put into production the fully-scripted pilot for the “Battlestar Galactica” prequel “Caprica.” “I just got a call from NBC-Universal,” SciFi VP Mark Stern tells the magazine. “They want us to take another look at the project.” The prequel, set about half a century before the events of “Galactica,” will deal with Bill Adama’s lawyer dad and his contemporary, the human “inventor” of the Cylons. Of course, recent events suggest “Cylons” have actually been around for centuries!

With Galactica on its way to completion, I do wish they would get the Caprica project running sooner rather than later. At least give us a mini-series as they did with BSG to test the waters.