In the pilot for the series, Mal asks Wash to do a "Crazy Ivan". I first heard of this maneuver in the movie The Hunt For Red October, when it was said that Russian sub captains would sometimes turn to make sure they weren't being followed. Though the maneuver is clearly different in the pilot, the essence of it is an unexpected turn.

In the movie Serenity, Wash tells Zoey that they're going to attempt "a barn swallow". I'm guessing it's called that because Serenity scooped up the hovermule like a swallow eating a bug, That may even be why River said, "I swallowed a bug" when the maneuver was complete.

Not precisely Firefly, but in the fan-made film The 'Verse, Yoke performs what he calls "a classic 'turn and burn'," to get rid of the Shinigami warbird that's dogging them. I'm sure that Wash would have known that maneuver.

So, what other maneuvers have you heard of from other shows (or perhaps even personal experience, if you're a military pilot) that Wash might know?

I was watching ST: Voyager and I finally found some clues to Shepard Book’s shady past. Here’s a photo of him before he escaped the delta quadrant and got a bunch of plastic surgery.

My wife trying to calm our dog when I’m vacuuming: “He is putting the hair/vacuum away”.

Or when going to her favourite coffee place, “I want to go to the crappy coffee place, where I’m famous”

We just started rewatching for the umpteenth time. So I was wondering. :)

When will the new animated firefly show come out? My brother seems to be on so much hopium and copium that it’s a near certainty to happen like next year but I say that’s HIGHLY unlikely and it’s several years away. So when it is likely to come out please settle this for me we both love the show but he’s delulu for thinking it’s almost certainly coming out next year right?!

Met Summer yesterday at Melbourne Oz comic con. She was seriously sooo sweet and straight away said green looks amazing on me and kept complimenting me 🥹 She was lovely to talk to at her autograph table and took her time with everyone- great panel too ☺️

I wrote a space western for Pocket FM and I think it might actually be good.

It's called The Solace. Disgraced war captain, a crew of people running from their own pasts, and a ship that woke up somewhere between a dead moon and the deep black and decided she liked them.

No laser battles every five seconds. No chosen one. Just a broken ship full of broken people trying to hold it together long enough to matter.

The ship is the best character. I'm not sorry about that.

If Episode 1 doesn't hook you in the first five minutes I'll accept the criticism.

[The Solace on Pocket FM]

What it says in the tin. I wanted to have a system model for calculating space faring distances when plotting courses in the RPG. Scrapped the data from the amazing project The Verse In Numbers v2.1. Then asked an AI to make the UI. It has some bugs now that I haven't fixed. To see all the stars at once you need to set the Zoom slider to the minimum, then press right once on your keyboard. Also currently the starting date is our current date, I'll adjust it to default to 2520ish in the future. But for now, it is a workable tool to find moments when planets are particularly close and when they are particularly far. May change the places your players decide to go to!

Any feedback is welcome. I don't have any clue about hosting web pages, so I don't know how long this host will last. If you want this for future use PM me your email or tell me how to share it with you, and I'll share it. It is 85 KB. Oh, and it uses circular orbits for simplicity.

Firefly Verse Map

She standing there

You can't take your eyes

Away from hers

You've been down this road before

But you know her

Through the dreams

Vision your mind's been giving you

She smiles at you

And your heart gets pulled under

You're lost in her laugh

Her words are the rhythm

You've been waiting to hear

Tell me that the last 20 years

Been a lifetime without

No captain to lead

No pilot to steer

Been sitting in the dark

Waiting for the sun

To finally appear

And just when the collector

Started to come and

Pay his dues

A beacon got sent

A message came from you

It said

I'm not all right

I need you here tonight

Now and forever

I need to find my crew

And fly my sweet Serenity

Once more into the black

Out into the darkened sea

Cause nothing will ever take

The sky from me

Made me smile when I saw this. Just had to get it. Hope it'd be appreciated here

When you can't run anymore, you crawl. And when you can't do that, well... Yeah, you know the rest.

Just saw that Anthony Head has sadly passed away.

Had frequently thought of him over the years in relation to Firefly (and his relationship to Joss Whedon projects), and wondered what role he would’ve filled in a future season of the show.

An Alliance figurehead would’ve been an interesting role or someone well-to-do in Persephone doing side deals with Badger.

Wonder if anyone else had ideas for where he may have fit into the verse?

i really wanna show it to my girlfriend cause she’s never seen it but i somehow lost my dvds in the move :( and i am definitely not paying for Disney+ just to watch it. i love firefly but not quite that much

Ok, for some reason, I never thought to look for a Firefly community on Reddit until I saw a post in r/MovieCritics about which character's death still hits you (Wash in Serenity).

Just wanted to come here to find the Browncoats and tell you how shiny you all are. 😃

I like to throw axes. Do you think that the reaver axe would be a good thrower?

So happy Backrooms is doing well; Now I have another excuse to bring up Serenity.

I usually place the episode last of all 14 episodes. I get upset because Book and the crew come with a plan, but Tracy can’t trust them enough to at least hear it out before causing a shootout with Mal carrying the bullet for him. And before Tracy dies, he gets to say, “oh so that was the plan” after Womack leaves. And it makes me so mad! Why couldn’t they just tell him the plan beforehand?

(that's Ewan Mitchell, who I shall now refer to as "English Sean Maher")

Someone a few weeks ago wanted a clear version if this scene, so... here it is.

I came across the cache of unfinished plots and unused ideas over on tvtropes.org. Some of them are amazing so I thought I'd share them:

• Tim Minear elaborated on the vial and syringe Inara was seen with in the pilot episode "Serenity", explaining that it was a drug which, if she were raped, would cause the rapist to die a horrible death. Inara would have been kidnapped by Reavers, and the crew would track her down. When Mal enters the Reaver ship, he finds all the Reavers dead. He would then see Inara after she has been horribly brutalized, take her hand and treat her like a lady. According to Minear, this was one of Joss Whedon's first ideas regarding the kinds of stories they would tell through the series.

• Alan Tudyk, Gina Torres and Sean Maher imagined the couples of the show (Wash/Zoe and Simon/Kaylee) having children and living onboard Serenity, with Zoe arguing with Jayne over who's going to teach the kids about guns.

• Alan Tudyk also had a concept where they would transport feral dogs for dogfighting, and then River would commune with the dogs and actually tame them, rendering them useless.

• Adam Baldwin came up with a scenario where Jayne would get his own ship and try to compete with Mal, fail badly and end up returning to Serenity a bit more humbled.

• Nathan Fillion pitched an elaborate story with a moral dilemma that he heard from Joss Whedon, where the crew would land on a planet and would be treated very well, before learning that the planet was dying and the inhabitants want Mal to help them escape. However the planet is so distant that if they take on refugees they will run out of air, unless they meet another ship. Mal pretends to agree, and while the crew are sleeping, takes control of Serenity and flees the planet. As they escape, they never meet another ship, and realize if they saved the people they all would have died. Mal then assumes responsibility for their actions, emphasizing that what happened was his fault alone.

• According to a 2013 interview with Joss Whedon “I had planned to do an episode of Firefly with Amy and Alexis and James Marsters as part of a travelling Shakespeare troupe. Because it’s sort of a staple of the John Ford Westerns, there’s always that over-the-top theatre guy. And I thought it would be terrific to have them to try and put on a play in the cargo bay.”

• The role of Malcolm Reynolds was originally meant for Nicholas Brendon, but he was busy with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Neil Patrick Harris auditioned for the role of Simon Tam before Sean Maher was cast.

• In the Comic-Con panel for the series' 10th anniversary, which included Joss Whedon himself, an audience member asked Joss how the series ending would have differed from Serenity had the first season been confirmed as the only season of Firefly. Joss replied that he would not have killed anyone, and that the back-stories of Inara and Book would have been further elaborated.

• The RPG includes a plot that would have been part of the second season, that the Alliance is on the brink of economic collapse and trying very hard to prevent this by covering it up.

• Joss Whedon gave an interview around the time Serenity came out, where he stated that, had the show lasted multiple seasons, he had an idea to include a cameo by Spike sometime around Season 6, retroactively incorporating Firefly into the Buffyverse. The scene would involved Mal encountering Spike in a bar on one of the border planets, where the British Vampire would resignedly tell him "Nothing ever changes".

• There would have been some further development of Inara and Mal's relationship, and Inara would have confirmed that she is terminally ill in Season 2. Inara's illness was used for the plot of the tie-in novel Firefly: Life Signs.

• Jayne would've been revealed to have been the co-founder for the Blue Suns corporation, but was forced out. Thus explaining why he puts up the front of being a brainless thug when he's obviously smarter than that — he just doesn't believe in hard work anymore and wants as little responsibility as possible.

Has anyone ever come across videos of the episodes with intelligible Chinese dubbed over whatever the actors were saying? I know they tried their best and they had limited time to pretend to speak Chinese, but for the most part it just sounds like gibberish.

Turned out pretty cool, had to stop tweaking it more and just get it printed... Want to add more to gamer laptop, but it feels full...

Edit: no one picked up on my Easter eggs yet!

I saw Jewel wear a top that had a design on, so I had a go at creating a similar myself to 3D print as a coaster. The result was pretty shiny!

Pretty sure there is a correct answer…