Theology and Battlestar Gallactica

I'm really late to the game, because I only started watching Battlestar Gallactica last week, and thus am only on disk four of season one. But, the theological discourse in the show is pretty explicit, and kind of caught me off guard, as I'm sure it did everyone else. Beliefnet wrote about it a while back. It has spoilers so I quite after the first page. But apparently, it's not so much orthodox Christianity, but specifically Mormonism, that is embedded in the show. That's kind of fascinating; I can't think of another popular story that so successful drew our Mormon beliefs. I'm eager to see where they take it.