"In 1999, George Lucas changed the nature of Star Wars by making The Phantom Menace into a kind of political intrigue film. In 2005, Rick Berman and Brannon Braga attempted to create a Star Trek prequel that blended a Western with a contemporary adventure show in the form of Enterprise."
"15 years ago, on January 4, 2011, the SyFy Channel finally aired the last five episodes of Caprica, a show that had already been canceled, and had already aired its final episodes in Canada. This inauspicious end to the series was fascinating, partly because it did manage to conclude some of the show's biggest arcs, but also because, by the time these episodes came out, it was hard to believe that less than three years prior, its parent series, Battlestar Galactica, was the epicenter of sci-fi geek culture."
Early-2000s science fiction commonly embraced slow-burning prequels that built familiar interstellar backstories. Examples include The Phantom Menace reframing Star Wars as political intrigue and Enterprise blending Western and contemporary adventure elements. Caprica positioned itself as an audacious prequel precursor to the first Cylon War and explored how humanoid Cylons emerged on the planet Caprica. The SyFy Channel aired Caprica’s final five episodes on January 4, 2011, after cancellation and Canadian broadcasts. Those episodes concluded major arcs but also revealed a cultural shift toward prequel fatigue as audience interest waned despite narrative closure.
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