Firefly: the One Song by John Erik Ege - HTML preview

Author’s note.

I read speculative information on the internet, always a reliable source, that the “Hands of

Blue” folks might not be human, more specifically argued that they might be androids. That interests me. It is clear, using only evidence from the series that Joss was trying to focus on humans, not aliens, and not alien human interaction, because human to human interaction is complicated enough, we really don’t need to throw in aliens to add suspense or drama. That said, I find it interesting that ‘nothing’ is said about the absence of life in the Universe, because that is meaningful, too. Scary meaningful, but then, how many times to we not talk about what is staring us right in the face, and if we did maybe we could emphasize how sacred we should treat the life we know, and be making efforts to spread life, all life, to as many worlds as we can safely touch. Based on evidence from the series, it is clear that Joss was trying to stick close to the science of things, and that humans would clearly be affected by living on other planets. That’s awesome! Even if we colonized Mars, it is very clear that the first people born and raised on Mars would not be going to Earth. Ever. They would be human, but they would be changed. They might be taller, due to less gravity. Who knows how the environment would change them. Everything affects us, and our genes respond to environmental demands, and over time, we would change. We would still be human, but we could be so radically different even only after a few generations, that we could be quite unusually different.

One of the complaints about Star Trek is that the aliens are so human like. In a galaxy populated by humans, with each planet having its own environmental peculiarities, we could have very different looking humans competing for the same resources, and depending on successful your initial colony was, this might lead to some very interesting interaction patterns.

Add to that, there is a spiritual component to Firefly. It seems to me to be a better blending of Western and Eastern philosophies, but then you have the anomaly of River, who is clearly telepathic, and I am thinking the Stargate program where the US government was making psychic spies, they call it remote viewing, fuels this darker, secretive black operations, and so there is this opportunity to explore the layers of society by peeling back all the level of control that we think we see to find out what is really going on below the surface. There is so much more to the Firefly Universe than what we got to tap into. I would totally vote yes on a second series, and fire the lot who closed it down. There is one thing that the powers that be continuously do, and that is they hold the viewing public in contempt, thinking we can’t handle or won’t buy smart stuff, or even existential stuff. The last episode of Firefly was super existential, and I wonder how much of that played into its demise, the same way that the pilot episode of Star Trek nearly killed the series because it was considered too ‘cerebral.’

I want more. I want more smart stuff. Funny smart. This show has been gone a moment, but it’s still being talked about. That’s meaningful, too. Maybe this small fanfiction will add to the lore and the myths of this thing as continue to move away from that moment, because I am still not ready to let it go. Again, thank you Joss. Thank you Summer, Nathan, Sean, Morena, Jewel, Adam, Alan, Ron, Gina, and Chiwetel, and everyone else involved in this…

And thank you, you. For reading, sharing this moment, even if we disagree or are separated by time and space, which I am holding out to being an illusion in its own right.