There was some decent excitement earlier this week that director and writer Kevin Smith would take on his third television project of the season by directing an episode of "Battlestar Galactica" late in its fourth and final season. But apparently, Smith spoke too soon.

Terry Moore, wife of showrunner Ronald D. Moore, told fans at the official SciFi Channel Web site that despite what he said during a recent interview with AOL, Smith of "Clerks" and "Dogma" fame will not take the director's chair for "Battlestar Galactica."

"No he's not," Moore said in a post. "Scheduling conflict."

There has been no statement about the recent development on any of Smith's Web sites, or through any interview sources, but it does appear that Smith's dream come true was, in the end, just a dream.

Will the media be in an uproar?

"No, they probably won't," Moore said of SciFi Channel's publicity team having to counter this story. "Something like that only registers on message boards."

When telling AOL about the directing an episode of SciFi Channel's signature series, Smith said he was "stoked about it."

"It's cool, but it is scary because it is like, 'What the fuck? I can't bring anything to that show."

Smith will continue to work on other television projects this year. He directed the pilot episode of The CW series "Reaper," and will write and direct an episode of the "Heroes" spinoff series, "Heroes: Origins" premiering at mid-season on NBC.

"Battlestar Galactica," sans Smith, with return in November with the telemovie "Razor" before beginning its fourth and final season in early 2008 on SciFi Channel.

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