Jim Bennett's obituary for Glen Larson describes Battlestar Galactica as not Glen Larson's most successful series but his most personal.
Jim Bennett, "Mormon creator of 'Battlestar Galactica' dared to produce something profound," Deseret News, November 21, 2014, accessed January 23, 2023
“Battlestar Galactica” — the original, not the nihilistic, joyless reboot of the series that aired on the SyFy Network around the turn of the century — wasn’t Larson’s most successful series, but it was arguably the most personal to him. It was launched in the wake of “Star Wars” mania, and it spurred a lawsuit from George Lucas for copyright infringement. Lucas lost that battle, and rightly so. Yes, there are superficial similarities between the two space operas, but “Galactica” offered a premise that was actually something much deeper and richer than the “Star Wars” universe.
“Battlestar Galactica,” in essence, was Mormons in space.