and E.T. recognizes him and reacts to seeing him.
Good God… Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and (to a lesser degree) Return of the Jedi are my favorite movies ever. Yes, much of that is wrapped up in the nostalgia of being 8 years old when Star Wars came out so these characters, ships, etc., were a part of my early childhood. Ditto for Raiders of the Lost Ark. What kid of my age/generation didn’t just idolize Indiana Jones?!? So I’m quite stunned to realize I knew nothing of these Easter Eggs. Granted, in my own mind the Star Wars prequels just do not exist to me but… the pod from 2001?!? C3PO and R2 in hieroglyphs?!? E.T. in the Senate?!? E.T. recognizing Yoda??? mind crumbles
Now I need to go watch Raiders again and try to spot the hieroglyphs myself. (I won’t re-watch the prequels because they do not exist to ever be watched!)
Here’s the clip from the movie. The hieroglyphic C-3P0 and R2-D2 are briefly visible a couple of times - blink and you’ll miss them.
It’s at 0:56 very clearly on the column to the left of Indiana, if you can stop it at the correct frame.
They’re visible for slightly longer at 1:07.
So, the implication of these hieroglyphs is that C-3PO and R2-D2 were around in ancient Egypt. Could Stargate be fitted into this?
This leads to one clear, unavoidable conclusion: River Tam is a Jedi.
Image from the internet of Bobba Fett’s trophy room, featuring: an alien xenomorph, a predator, Spock (or a Vulcan), an alien from Mars Attacks! (I think), an E.T., and, new addition Marvin the Martian.
I can buy that she has Jedi-style Force powers, though she doesn’t do well at the Jedi precepts about controlling one’s emotions, or foresaking attachments. 
Maybe she’s a light-side Sith.
Yup. And GESancman is right about what Anakin says.
Threepio also refers to himself as specialising in “Human Cyborg Relations” in all the films. In the Empire Strikes Back, he refers to Luke as being “quite clever for a human,” says he “doesn’t understand human behaviour,” and one of Vader’s henchmen says “the Hoth system is supposed to be devoid of human forms.”
Here’s the script for Phantom Menace., and here’s the script for A New Hope. (Can’t be arsed linking them all).
I suppose we could say that, since they’re speaking Galactic Basic rather than a language called English, the word human has been translated, but the word it’s been translated to is human. Occam’s Razor would say that they really did mean human.
Official exhibitions about Star Wars (such as the big one at the O2 in London a few years ago) also refer to Han, Leia etc as human. That was before the changes getting rid of much of the extended universe, so maybe it doesn’t count, but the movies themselves definitely count.
Can you be a Jedi without training? But I like the idea that she’s strong in the Force. The Firefly universe would fit in well with Star Wars. However, Firefly is set in 2517, so that would mean Lamda-class shuttles had been around for a really long time. Maybe it’s a heritage vehicle 
And there’s a Firefly-class ship seen flying overhead in the Battlestar Galactica miniseries.
Thing is, Firefly is limited to one star system – the possibility of FTL travel is never mentioned, AFAICR.
R2-D2 also hitched a ride on the Close Encounters mothership (visible in this clip).
I believe we’re approaching the point where we must either (a) throw out all Easter eggs, or (b) accept that all science fiction film and television productions are set in the same universe at about the same time.
Or accept that fictional works are fictional and aren’t meant to depict a 100 percent consistent reality. In other words, sometimes an on-screen joke is just an on-screen joke.
Or you could accept that the post you quoted was a joke. :rolleyes:
BSG also has a pilot whose call sign is “Starbuck” even though the finale reveals[spoilers] they end up on Earth 200,000 years before a) Melville wrote Moby Dick or b) the formation of a famous Seattle-based chain of coffee shops.
Or every fictional work takes place in Imaginationland.
To further echo your point, we also have to remember that films are not documentaries on real life. It’s not like they caught a UFO that happened to fly into the frame. Sure, seeing a ship from another sci-fi universe might be an “easter egg”. Or it might just be that the art director just grabbed a bunch of old ship models to fill in the background, thinking that no one is going to notice the Serenity whatever because it’s only ten pixels wide.
It’s like people trying to guess the diameter of the Death Star from its curvature in the scene in Jedi where the Executor rams into it. The shot isn’t taken from the surface of an actual Death Star. It’s taken from a flat table filled with greebles and plastic bits made to look like a big ship crashing into an even bigger round space station.
I’m sure there could be a way to fanwank that - things went backward at some point, like after the decline of the Roman Empire? It’s a fun idea, though, that River is force sensitive and untrained.
I read somewhere a few years ago that this wasn’t an homage, but simply the easy reuse of an existing model.