NEW YORK – It's been a long, hard year for Battlestar Galactica fans. The wait for season four is almost over, though, and BSG junkies can get their fix online 10 hours before the show airs on TV. The final season premiere will stream live on SciFi.com from noon to 1 p.m. (EST) April 4 – get your lunch orders in now.

The streaming revelation along with other show secrets and anecdotes, was revealed last night at the Morgan Library during a panel discussion with series executive producers David Eick and Ron Moore and nine of the show's stars.

More news on a confirmed BSG prequel, identifying the final cylon and what it's like to find out you're a toaster, all after the jump.

Caprica, a two-hour pilot that takes place 50 years before BSG, has been given the green light. As the Galactica stars were gearing up to come on stage, Eick was setting up meetings to start casting and continue planning. The show will begin production this spring and will air in the fall.

Producer Moore is directing his first episode (episode 12 to be exact), and Edward James Olmos, who directed two episodes in the past* *, will direct this season as well.

A new series of webisodes has been ordered for season four.

There are no plans to turn BSG into a movie franchise. "I get this question a lot from the people on this stage," joked Moore. "I think the series works best as an ensemble television base. Part of the special quality of this show is that you use this entire cast and you have all these complicated story lines that you embroider on these characters to get into the richness of the plot." Moore said to make the show into a movie he would have to concentrate on just two characters and make everyone else supporting characters, as he did in the Next Generation films with Jean-Luc Picard and Commander Riker.

Michael Hogan, who plays Colonel Tigh, said he was stunned when he found out his character was a cylon. He joked that he had said, since the series' beginning, "Boy am I glad I'm not a cylon." Oops!

Aaron Douglas (the Chief) said he made a conscious decision this season to play his character differently when he's in cylon mode. He's curious to see if it works on screen.

Douglas said he hated discovering he was a cylon, especially since he found out by accident three months before he was supposed to. "I was over at 'someone's' house and saw some papers lying around: 'Oooh outlines for – I gotta go to the bathroom!' I locked myself in the bathroom and was looking for my material and suddenly, 'WHAT!?!'" He had to keep the revelation a secret for three months, but he would occasionally go up to Moore and Eick and ask, "So, anything going on with the Chief?"

Olmos joked that it was in his contract that he wouldn't be a cylon.

James Callis, who plays Gaius Baltar, wasn't allowed to say anything about his character, other than the fact that he's involved with a cult this season. Ummm, duh.

Season four will have the majority of the ship assuming Starbuck is a cylon (who wouldn't?), but she may not be. In response to a question to the actors on whether or not they found themselves lobbying to be the last cylon, Moore joked, "There's really no one left. Who's left?" To which Katee Sackhoff, who plays Starbuck, sheepishly raised her hand. Hint or trick?

Playing a cylon is actually harder than playing a human, according to Sackhoff. She revealed that the filming process for the cylons is much, much more intensive – it takes longer to film a scene because the actors who play skin jobs have to do multiple takes as their different models (changing wardrobe, angles, etc.) "Every time I have a scene with a cylon I'm like, 'Ooooh God! Why am I in this scene today!? So I have no desire to be a cylon,'" Sackhoff explained.

When someone from the audience asked Mary McDonnell, who plays President Roslin, if Barack Obama had approached her to be his running mate, she replied that Hillary had. At which point Douglas quipped: "Hillary's the final cylon." Badabum!

Photos, more anecdotes from the cast, and a look inside the swag bag coming later today.

Photo: The Battlestar stars gather onstage at Morgan Library in New York. From left: Executive producer David Eick; unidentified worker; executive producer Ron Moore; actors Grace Park (Sharon Valerii), Edward James Olmos (Adm. William Adama), Tricia Helfer (Number Six), Jamie Bamber (Capt. Lee "Apollo" Adama), Katee Sackhoff (Capt. Kara "Starbuck" Thrace), James Callis (Dr. Gaius Baltar), Mary McDonell (President Laura Roslin), Michael Hogan (Col. Saul Tigh) and Aaron Douglas (Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol).

Credit: Sonia Zjawinski/Wired

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