PREDATORv2,
Xenomorph,
12 years ago
Think of it like this.
There are tons of human ships traveling through space around 2037. Remember Vickers bitching about how much money and time Weyland spent on tracking down Lv-223. Who knows how long it took before anybody discovered what the hell happened to the Prometheus ship and crew. The time frame and events that happened in Alien and Prometheus could have occurred without causing too much of a mess up story line wise. The technology shown in Prometheus is a hell of a lot more advanced then the old shit we saw in Alien, granted you've got a science vessel vs a cargo ship, but my theory stands...I think.