This story contains possible MODERATE SPOILERS for Season 4 of "Battlestar Galactica."

"Battlestar Galactica" executive producer Ronald D. Moore has denied a recent report by Airlock Alpha that Mary McDonnell's character of President Laura Roslin could exit the fourth season as early as mid-season. He's also fueled speculation that SciFi Channel will indeed split the fourth season, all thanks to the pending Writers Guild of America strike.

"I just told Ron what this spoiler was, and he said the Laura spoiler is 'not true,'" said Terry Moore, wife of the executive producer, who is a regular poster on the SciFi Channel message boards. "He also said that he hasn't even told the studio what the end of the show is."

The denial comes after McDonnell reportedly told a bunch of college students that hung out with her at a Massachussetts university last weekend.

"Mary told us that she only has three episodes left to film for BSG and is sad to say good-bye to Laura," a student who attended the gathering told Airlock Alpha earlier this week.

While it's universally accepted that Roslin, who is dying from breast cancer, will say good-bye at some point in the upcoming season, it's still unclear where. McDonnell told the students that the crew have already filmed eight episodes plus the "Razor" telemovie which is airing in November.

One quick note on this. Earlier this year when actors Edward James Olmos and Katee Sackhoff told reporters that the show would end after the fourth season, executive producer David Eick denied the report, claiming that Olmos made those claims in the past. A week later, Eick and Moore announced that indeed the show would end in the fourth season.

In the same conversation through his wife, Moore also revealed that he has only just recently completed Episode 13 of the last season, which means he still has six episodes to write before writers walk out on Nov. 1 as part of an imminent writers strike. It's unclear how Moore is covered under WGA rules in case of a strike, and if his position as an executive producer affects his ability to continue writing even during a walkout.

It had been believed that writing was nearly complete so that "Battlestar Galactica's" shooting schedule would remain uninterrupted in case of a prolonged writers strike.

With this news, however, it seems almost impossible -- unless the strike is short-lived -- that the final season would not be split with one half in 2008 and the other half in 2009. This would suggest that SciFi Channel's chatter about splitting the season is actually based on production issues, not entirely over SciFi Channel trying to expand the shelf life of the series.

"Battlestar Galactica" will return Nov. 24 with "Razor," the story of the Battlestar Pegasus, and is expected to return in February with the fourth and final season of the show on SciFi Channel.