A character drive narrative is legitimate for a origin story.
I grew up loving Star Trek but I like this more.
For you to claim that this show is better than Firefly makes me want to never visit your site again. May God have mercy on your soul.
But it was still deeply flawed, inconsistent and had to rely heavily on flashbacks in the finally to make nearly all the character arks make sense. This shows that they did not properly develop the characters in the course of the series.
If you compare it to non science fiction then it gets a 3.5/4 stars at best. Please keep it in perspective. Compared to say Rome, early Sopranos, the Wire and the Shield BSG does not measure up.