BSG’s Producer Discusses Corporate Religion

inquire where the spiritual themes in Battlestar Galactica get from ? A newly - release telecasting of executive producer Ron Moore introducing a screening of an episode to a group of students explores the grandness of the mythological and spiritual elements to the series , as well as how one throwaway line can change the direction of an entire history .

Moore explained the more corporate origins of the strong ghostly undertones to the show :

When I was writing the miniseries , there was a scene in the miniseries between one of the Cylons that we call number six and a character called Baltar . And he was babble out with her about something mad and , as I was writing it , I just had her say “ God is love . ” And I , I literally stopped because it was an interesting matter for a golem to say . And I did n’t have a go at it what it meant , and I did n’t really have an understanding of what larger place this could go , but I really liked it , because it was n’t something that I was used to seeing in scientific discipline fabrication when you ’re dealing with androids and golem . So I keep it . But it was just a small reference point in the show . I turned in the first selective service to the studio and the mesh and I got back a note from a web executive at the time named Michael Jackson – no relation – who fixed on that line . He said , “ Well , that ’s a really interesting thing for a golem to say , ” and said that , you know , there were a lot of parallels and parable in the handwriting already to the war against act of terrorism and Al Quaeda and the 9/11 event and said , what if you took that further and made the cylons , gave them more of a religious fanaticism , gave them a fundamentalism as tug their reason to wipe out humanity . And I grabbed that , because you ’re not used to get that kind of note from a electronic internet executive and said , sure , I can do that . And so , from that peak on , the show took a rudimentary turn where that became part of our myth .