The Top Three Sci-Fi TV Series Have One Thing In Common

What can Star Trek and Stargate have in common with this motley crew?

That's right folks, and if you haven't already guessed it, there is one thing that Star Trek, Stargate & Battlestar Galactica all have in common...

That being rather directly or indirectly all of them in some way have to do with ancient pagan religions!

I doubt you would have thought that you would have heard these prolific science fiction shows used in that way... But it is quite true!

One of things that Star Trek, Stargate & Battlestar Galactica have in common is in the shows some of the characters worship pagan gods like, 'Ares' God Of War!

Lets take the most obvious one first, let's talk about Stargate...

Apophis (Played by: Peter Williams), is an example of one of the more famous ancient gods that played a prominent role in Stargate SG1

Stargate was a series that more so than the rest of the shows that I am about to mention, heavily utilized the ancient gods, but in this case the ancient gods were actually a parasitic race that forced human hosts to enslave ancient humans, and in the beginning of the series are the race that modern mankind fights against!

A scene from the remake of Battlestar Galactica that had to do with religious significance during their search for, 'Earth.'

And now Battlestar Galactica... In this show they may not actually show the deities... But Battlestar Galactica has to do with an ancient but technologically advanced race that was the predecessor of mankind on Earth.

Now this race followed the Greek Gods.

Commander Sisko confronting a Bajoran spiritual leader... The Bajoran religions having similar attributes to ancient Roman worship.

And finally with Star Trek... Now this one is a little bit different... You see, this series does not actually have characters that do follow the ancient human deities...

But with the series following certain elements of mankind through out time (I,e... The Romulan Star Empire, being modeled off of the, 'Roman Empire',) A lot of Star Trek's alien races religions follow elements of the ancient deities on Earth.