FIREFLY Lives!

One of my all-time favorite freedom writers, Claire Wolfe, has written a wonderful column about one of my all-time favorite sci-fi TV series, Firefly.

Created by Joss Whedon of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame, Firefly was a rousing antidote to the old collectivist Star Trek universe, telling the adventures of a motley crew of spacebound individualists. But wonderful as it was, the show lasted only 10 weeks on Fox in 2002 before the network execs killed it. These were the same execs who brought us Joe Millionaire.

Thankfully, Firefly is an example of the cult TV series that will not die. The DVD collection of the entire 14-episode series is a big hit, and Whedon's assembled the whole cast for a movie, Serenity, set to debut in theaters April 22, 2005.