Although "Battlestar Galactica" is in reruns until January, the final touches of the second season are being put into place and, according to Trek Today, Ronald D. Moore is eager to discuss his combined relief and sadness of finishing up the season and also highlight some of the key differences between working on Star Trek and "Battlestar Galactica."

"When I was at Trek, and doing 26 hours a year, the end of the season was more an occasion for the bleary-eyed and nearly brain-dead staff to plan their escapes from the Hart Building," said Moore. "It's also a reminder of just how fast this trip is going ... I can't decide if I'm just getting old or if the special quality of this experience is truly making it all seem like it's roaring past me at an impossibly fast pace."

But according to Moore, one of the key differences between BSG and Trek is the amount of technical jargon that make up the stories.

"I did want to stay away from the technobabble that I felt sometimes swamped the characters in Trek, and so I have intentionally avoided discussion of the technical workings of Galactica ... the writing staff often felt that the technological detail of the Enterprise was as limiting on Trek as it was helpful."

During his time on "The Next Generation," there were some sound storylines that had to be scrapped because a technical explanation given in a previous episode would have made the story impossible.

But one thing that Moore was adamant about during the interview was the constant determination of the cast and crew to attaining as high a quality as possible on the show. However, while the fans may love the end results, the crew are often dissatisfied with their work when their goals and ambitions prove to be unattainable.

"I found myself not only dissatisfied last night, but positively angry with myself at something I knew in my bones had fallen well below the bar I set for myself," he said. "Nothing pisses me off more than not making a show the best I think it can be and in this case, there was no one to blame but myself."

Moore also commented that when writing episodes for the series, he often sits with classic episodes from the original '70s series playing in the background.

NOTE: This story is being re-run in an altered form to correct a production error.