REVIEW: SERENITY (by a HUGE fan of Firefly)

[ScottSF]

wow, that's a great article, it contains some ideas to play with. It doesn't say anything about the teraformers though. I wonder if they are able to compensate for some of those factors. I had wondered about what happened in 2010 where Jupiter became a small sun so many of Jupiters moons became like planets of a smaller sun. Thanks! I was at another forum and nobody wanted to even think about this stuff, like it was a wet blanket to their space party. Oooh how about portable suns, like portable hearters. But if they could do that then they could probably leave the solar system. I wonder if the humans spent several generations aboard the ships that left earth or if they do have inter-stellar travel but only the most rich and powerful have access. My dream show has Joss doing plot and characters but a star trek team covering speculative science. I used to love on TNG when I woud ask but wouldn't that? . . . and the next scene would answer my question.

 

[Carolyn Hill]

I was at another forum and nobody wanted to even think about this stuff, like it was a wet blanket to their space party.

Was it a forum devoted to Firefly and Serenity, or a general SFF forum? Strange they didn't want to speculate.

I wonder if the humans spent several generations aboard the ships that left earth or if they do have inter-stellar travel but only the most rich and powerful have access.

Serenity: The Official Visual Companion says that "an entire generation never even saw the outside of a spaceship, the journey took so long" from Earth-That-Was to the new system (12). So, not several generations, but at least one, spent their lives aboard ship. But we don't know how long people live in the Firefly future. Maybe significantly longer than we do; maybe not. So in our terms it might have taken several generations.

Certainly they have interstellar travel, in the form of generation ships, but I guess you mean FTL or some other go-fast method that can make the trip in less than a lifetime. In the series, we don't see any such ships, and fan opinion seems to be that it doesn't exist. I've read that Joss says he doesn't think that FTL exists in the 'verse. (Sounds like the sort of waffle-science thing he might say. )

If you like to speculate about the science, you might enjoy the FireflyWiki: http://www.fireflywiki.org/