

According to Joss Whedon, when Kaylee smiles, everything suddenly becomes shiny. Famous enough to be referenced in World of Warcraft. Jewel Staite as Kaywinnit Lee "Kaylee" Frye, the mechanic.A man with less subtlety than a sledgehammer, and even fewer brains. Adam Baldwin as Jayne Cobb, the mercenary.Alan Tudyk as Hoban "Wash" Washburne, the pilot with no fighting skills.Gina Torres as Zoe Alleyne Washburne, his second-in-command, gun-slinging badass and deadpan snarker among snarkers.Nathan Fillion as Malcolm Reynolds, disillusioned owner and captain of the Firefly-class transport Serenity.The Firefly universe contains no non-human sentient beings, and in fact no non-Earth-based life at all. The show was created by Joss Whedon and Tim Minear ( Mutant Enemy Productions), and combined science-fictional concepts (interplanetary travel, spaceships, terraforming) with a Western setting (poor agricultural colonies where people ride horses, cattle ranching, cowboy slang). However, things change when he inadvertently lets a deadly Alliance secret board his ship: a Mysterious Waif who was subject to horrific experimentation aiming to turn her into a living weapon. Working as an amoral jack-of-all-trades, he tries to eke out a life for himself and his crew away from the reach of the Alliance. Malcolm Reynolds is a former Browncoat who now captains a run-down tramp freighter called Serenity. The dominant power in this time is the monolithic Alliance, whose iron grip on the 'verse has tightened after a failed rebellion by a group known as 'Independents' or 'Browncoats' (the latter having become the demonym for the franchise's fandom). In the future, humanity has spread across the stars, terraforming planets for colonization and creating a new frontier reminiscent of the old Wild West. A DVD box set was released in December 2003 and has sold briskly ever since. Its quick cancellation helped give rise to The Firefly Effect. It was canceled after 14 episodes were produced, three of which didn't air until after the show's cancellation. If you're looking for actual fireflies, see Lighting Bug.įirefly is a Science Fiction Space Western that ran on the FOX Network in the 2002-03 season.
