Battlestar Prequel: Imagine The Wire In Space
The fanatics at TheTVAddict.com have gotten their hands on a script for Caprica, the prequel spin-off of the Sci-Fi Channel's awesome Battlestar Galactica. "CAPRICA, set a mere fifty-one years prior to the planet's destruction portrays a far seedier version of modern day earth, essentially reading like an episode of HBO's THE WIRE. Like all Ronald D. Moore projects, the pilot is riddled with political intrigue, racial prejudice, [and] religious zealots."
One of the main characters is "Father/Billionaire scientist Daniel Graystone. Sure he may not be the world's most attentive parent, but can you really blame him? He's awfully busy worrying that his company is on the verge of losing the Government contract for the Robot Super-soldier and Meta-Cognitive Processor after wasting five years and half a billion cubits. Worse still, his lack of attention has led his wife Amanda to seek comfort in her husband's chief rival Tomas Vergis [a Tauron!] while his daughter Zoey's cries for attention lead her to an organization known as the 'Soldiers of One' - a monotheistic religious group that advocates the worship of a single, all-knowing, all powerful God whose mission is to quote, 'drive out the many Gods.'" Spoilers galore here.