The reason why Kevin Smith won't be sitting in the director's chair during the final season of "Battlestar Galactica" is not over concern about what he would bring to the table, but more because producers accidentally double-booked his episode with another director.

Smith, best known for films such as "Clerks" and "Dogma" as being Silent Bob in the Jay and Silent Bob duo, had told a reporter last week that he was going to direct an episode of "Battlestar Galactica" and he was stoked about it. However, less than 12 hours later, executive producer Ronald D. Moore's wife Terry told fans on the official SciFi Channel message boards that Smith's involvement with the show wasn't going to happen because of "scheduling conflicts."

Smith is not the kind of person to hide behind Hollywood talk to explain bad news, and talked openly about why he's not involved with "Battlestar Galactica" in his popular blog, "My Boring Ass Life."

"See, with [The CW series] 'Reaper,' it was an easier decision to make," Smith said. "I wasn't stepping into something that already existed. I was helping to create what 'Reaper' woudl be, from the ground up. I know I knock myself as a director all the time, but when all was said and done, I honestly felt like I'd brought somehting to 'Reaper' and made it what it was. I secured the cast, tweaked that script, balanced the comedy and the action, pushed to make changes, worked with the actors to nail the characters -- all of which made that pilot really go pop."

"Battlestar Galactica" was different, however, because the show had already been established, and Smith wouldn't be interested in changing anything about it. In the end, his BSG episode would look like all the other BSG episodes.

"Who'd wanna alter the status quo on 'B-Star-G'? Certainly not me, man, I worship the show, so much so that the only reason I was even contemplating directing the ep was so that I could get to see the last season early, and glad-hand with a team of artisans and craftsmen/women I so greatly admired," Smith said. "Sometimes, my job affords me the opportunity to engage in some cool extracurricular activites, this opportunity was certainly going to be that."

Executive Producer David Eick, who also is working on NBC's new "Bionic Woman" series, was the man who really wanted Kevin Smith to be a part of the show, and felt bad when it didn't happen. He dropped a note to Smith, blaming himself for Smith's non-involvement, and double-booking director John Dahl to direct the same episode that Smith was slated to direct.

"I cannot tell you how fucking humiliated I am that we found ourselves actually able to have you direct an episode of 'Battlestar,' only to discover we'd double-booked the same episode becaause we are clearly incapable of walking and chewing fucking gum at the same time," Eick told Smith.

With Smith directing an episode of "Heroes: Origins," which would've possibly made him unavailable to do BSG, so Moore set out to find another name director for the epsidoe, and found Dahl -- best known for 1994's "The Last Seduction."

"No big deal, totally his right, but it meant there was a duplication of effort within our ranks, and so when he started inquiring about John Dahl, he didn't know my office was still working on trying to book you," Eick told Smith. "Then his office made the offer to Dahl and forgot to tell my office, so while that offer was out, we were still pursuing you. Indeed, Dahl accepted the offer before I even knew you were free for us."

Eick said both he and Moore were "seriously bummed" that they couldn't bring in Smith.

"I also heard you've discussed this in interviews, and thatonly makes my boneheadedness that much more profound and I will do anything -- publish a public blog called 'The Anatomy of a Fuckup' -- you name it, to make up for it," Eick said.

Smith apparently has no hard feelings, however.

"The moral of the story, kids? You snooze, you lose," Smith said about his initial indecision which contributed to the double-booking. "Still, I'm stoked to see Dahl's episode, as I'm stoked to see every episode of the final 'Galactica' season. I'll always be shocked and appreciative that David and Ron even thought of letting me into their sandbox in the first, granted. But I'm more than happy to play my standard role in 'Battlestar Galactica' ... that of the viewer."