thecoffeeguru - that wasn't because they exist in the same universe, that was because the SFX company that did Firefly also did BSG. It was just a shout-out.
Think about it: BSG is in the far, far past, well before humanity existed on Earth, yet there would be a Firefly-class starship back on one of the original 12 colonies? That one design of starship stayed in our collective unconscious through millenia, only to be used as a low-rent transport ship?
The evidence that Firefly exists in the same universe as the xenomorphs is far more compelling than the one CGI shout-out on BSG. Especially since this could mean the people who left Earth-that-was might have jumped the gun a little, and those left behind maybe fixed things enough to keep Earth livable. Maybe Weyland-Yutani was the company who fixed Earth the most, which is why they have so much control over things. Gah, too much to get into in an article comment - maybe I'll write an essay.
Think about it: BSG is in the far, far past, well before humanity existed on Earth, yet there would be a Firefly-class starship back on one of the original 12 colonies? That one design of starship stayed in our collective unconscious through millenia, only to be used as a low-rent transport ship?
The evidence that Firefly exists in the same universe as the xenomorphs is far more compelling than the one CGI shout-out on BSG. Especially since this could mean the people who left Earth-that-was might have jumped the gun a little, and those left behind maybe fixed things enough to keep Earth livable. Maybe Weyland-Yutani was the company who fixed Earth the most, which is why they have so much control over things. Gah, too much to get into in an article comment - maybe I'll write an essay.