It wasn't too long ago that X-Men producer Tom DeSanto was attached to the "Battlestar Galactica" project with X-Men director Bryan Singer. But when schedules forced the two to withdraw, Ronald D. Moore of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" fame took over, and now DeSanto is reflecting on how he and Singer may have handled the project.

While talking to an audience at Comic-Con International in San Diego, DeSanto said that while he felt that the current mini-series, scheduled to premiere on the Sci-Fi Channel Dec. 7, is in "good hands," he don't think he would've handled everything the same way Moore did.

"There's a lot of similar themes to the Ronald Moore 'Galactica' and our 'Galactica,' which I'm glad to see," DeSanto said for a Sci-Fi Channel special. "I just came out of the preview of seeing the miniseries and, I think to fans especially, (I'd say) 'Give them a chance.'"

DeSanto and Singer were on the Galactica project for 18 months before handing over the reins to Moore and crew. He said that their vision would've been a continuation of the 1970s series instead of Moore's re-imagination. But he did say that one major change in the miniseries from the original series -- human Cylons -- would've been included in their version, too. But they would've been handled a bit differently.

"We did have human Cylons, but we did it in a different sort of twist," DeSanto said. "It was the old Colonials who become indoctrinated into the Cylon society. The one way that they found they could survive was to give up their free will."

DeSanto would've used ideas used in Star Trek's Borg characters by having humans turned into Cylons by being injected with nanotechnology.

And about making Starbuck a woman? DeSanto said he would just have to wait and see. But he did say he'll be watching the miniseries when it's released.

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