This popular Joss Whedon series effectively mixes the science-fiction and Western genres. In the year 2517, the renegade crew of the rag-tag, Firefly-class spaceship Serenity makes their living in a distant star system via unorthodox means. Captain Malcolm “Mal” Reynolds (Nathan Fillion) and his first mate Zoe Washburne (Gina Torres) are veteran “Browncoats” of the Unification War — a failed attempt to resist the evil Alliance’s control.