well, ten years ago, Richard Hatch, was lobbying for a new BSG, I thought I'd heard that there was a movie clip at that time showing the concept for how much better they could portray the Galactica, cylons, etc... also think I remember John Colicos and Laurette Spang (Baltar and Cassiopeia)were helping hatch in the endeavor. However I'm fairly sure that idea got converted into the Sci-fi mini-series in '03 and the actual series in '04.