Kaywinnet Lee Frye. Even the name has something special about it and it very much fits the young woman we know as Kaylee. If dichotomy has been the watch word of this analysis of the crew of Serenity, then Kaylee is the queen of dichotomy. She is a sweet cheerful young woman who is into girly things like...

River Tam. It seems so innocent a name. And on the surface, that is exactly what the young woman who bears the name appears to be. Sweet, caring, a hyper intelligent and gifted individual who is taking college level courses before she even hits her teens and who excels at literally everything, certainly; but...

Of all Serenity’s crew members, Simon Tam changes the most. At first he is an extremely brilliant but aloof person, raised in the Core, he had all the arrogance and self -importance of any of the children of wealth and privilege.  His only friend through most of his life is his younger and even more...

(Author’s Note: This article contains spoilers that were not part of the regular Firefly series or the Serenity movie, so if you don’t want the secrets revealed, move along, there’s nothing to see here.) Shepherd Book, during the series and movie that followed the crew of Serenity, was a conundrum...

Of all members of the crew of Serenity, Inara Serra is the easiest to figure out . . . on the surface. She isn’t part of the larceny that the group occasionally finds themselves forced to perpetrate.  Inara is actually leasing the shuttle from Mal for travel and a place to entertain clients as a...

On the surface, you might think that Serenity’s “public relations” officer, Jayne Cobb, would be the easiest of all the crew to analyze: he’s in it for the money; and while that is predominately true, there is decidedly more to the man. Jayne first encountered the crew of Serenity when he and his...

Of all the crew of the Firefly class starship, Serenity, Hoban Washburne is the easiest to analyze because he is what he seems to be. There is no subterfuge or hidden greys to him . . . he is simply Wash. Wash (as he prefers to be called, because how would want to be called Hoban?) was born on a world so...

Zoe Alleyne (later Washburne) is the second of command on the Firefly class ship, Serenity. Zoe is a powerful warrior woman who is as deadly as she is beautiful, but also hides a sweetness, compassion, and genuine love for her shipmates. Zoe served with Mal in the Unification War, where she was often calm...

If you recognize the title of this article you have at least a passing familiarity with the phenomenon that is Firefly. Firefly is the short-lived (14 episodes and one film) but fanatically beloved western space opera that follows the trials and tribulations of the crew of a derelict 03-K64 Firefly-class...