Are there parallels between Battlestar Galactica and Mormonism?
Yes there are. Glen Larson (producer and creator) is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints, hereafter referred to as the “Mormon” or Latter-day Saint (LDS) church. Some of the ideas in Galactica are unmistakably Mormon in origin. 1. In Battlestar Galactica, twelve tribes of man founded the Twelve Colonies after departing from Kobol. A lost thirteenth colony colonized Earth. In The Book of Mormon, around 600 BC, the prophet Lehi took a remnant of the tribe of Joseph from Jerusalem to ancient America, during the time of the Babylonian captivity and the scattering of the twelve tribes of Israel. 2. In “Lost Planet of the Gods,” it is revealed that the mankind originated on Kobol, the mother world of all humans. Kobol is a rearranging of the word Kolob, which is the star “nearest unto the throne of God” (see The Book of Abraham, Ch. 3, found in The Pearl of Great Price.) The “Star Kobol” was also the ship on which armistice talks between the Colonials and the Cylons were
