According to Mormon doctrine, Kolob is the planet that is closest to the Heavenly Throne. According to LDS teaching, 'The Plan of Salvation, as revealed by Christ to His prophets, states that all people lived (before they were born onto the earth) as spirits in a pre-mortal existence, the spirit-offspring of God'. Spiritual entities emanate from around Kolob and provide the soul for each and every human being here on earth, and beings on countless planets elsewhere. . . .

Battlestar Galactica depicts the same kind of journey writ large, on the level of humanity's cyclical development rather than on the level of generations. . . . In the show, too, God is everywhere, and his presence makes itself particularly strongly felt around Kobol. Note that, in Mormon theology, spiritual transitions from one planet to another happen via God's throne near Kolob. In BSG, the road from Caprica to Earth goes via Kobol.