Coltarin wrote:System-Lord Baal wrote:For giving man fire. That pissed the other gods. So Zeus tied him to a rock so an eagle can eat his liver for all eternity. I wonder what the Goa'uld version of the story is.
Is it named for giving man lots of fire? Or for getting its liver eaten?
brought fire to the earth. thats what he basically did and that is what this ship does
And there was me thinking it was an oblique, very subtle Babylon 5 reference. EAS Prometheus was the Earth ship that first made contact with the Minbari and accidentally triggered the Minbari War.