10 Bizarre Star Trek Theories (That Might Be True)
4. Battlestar Galactica Is A Distant Prequel To The Star Trek Franchise
'Sorry what now?' we hear you ask. Bear with us.
Star Trek Picard and the Original Series episode What Are Little Girls Made Of (which has already been mentioned in this article) allude to an ancient race of synthetic androids and their organic creators. Ruk, the last of these ancient androids, is humanoid enough to almost be human, which is essentially a Humanoid Cylon, when you think about it. The Cylons took all sorts of forms.
The final episode of the 2003 re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica reveals that the events of the series occur 150,000 years before the 21st Century on modern-day Earth. Given that Star Trek is set in the 22nd, 23rd and 24th Centuries (for the most part), that means that the events of Battlestar Galactica would be far enough removed from Star Trek for them to have little impact on them.
Even though the Star Trek Galaxy has it's fair share of alien races that litter the stars, as T'Pol states in the Enterprise episode Fight Or Flight that only one in every 43,000 planets developed any intelligent life. The Galactica and her fleet could have wandered an empty corner of the Star Trek Galaxy for hundreds of years and still not found anything, since their FTL travel isn't as fast as Warp Drive.
Given that both shows have had the heft influence of Ronald D. Moore felt throughout them, it's entirely possible that there's a hidden link between them that both matters a great deal and doesn't matter at all.