Well, don't damn Roddenberry for finding stuff that sells and selling it to the slavering fans. Star Trek was and still is an American icon. You only WISH Firefly and Serenity could even approach the god-worship that Star Trek commands and probably will continue to command. But before Roddenberry sold us sentient alien life and such, there were other precedents for the same alien-loving beliefs. And I think there's room in the world of sc-fi fans for something as unique and lovely as the Firefly 'Verse. Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand...but you can't take the sky from me. And all the charm and charisma of our Captain Tight Pants and his crew that is family (both to him and to we rabid fans out here in the black) simply need to keep spreading the love. Like the guy who had never seen one episode nor even HEARD of FF before the BDM came out, but got hooked off of just a coupla eps, that gives me hope. Fly on, like a leaf in the wind, y'all. And, after all, it's Autumn, so more and more leaves are gonna be flyin'. Preach on of Firefly and Serenity. It's not too late.

i for one am a sci-fan that finds the lack of aliens refreshing. there's alot of fantasy (ie: Anne McCaffrey)writers that creates worlds so far in the future that it looks like the past. the idea is that we're pretty dumb and aggressive creatures and so have come close to destroying ourselves which leads us to the starting over. the future doesn't necessarily mean aliens to all of us.