The short-lived Firefly television show was a magnet for controversy, mainly over how quickly it was canceled. Yet one scene from the show’s finale has courted debate since 2002, and in Serenity ...

But the network that aired the show, Fox, didn’t feel the same way about the series as its fans. The network gave Firefly questionable timeslots that hurt its accessibility to audiences.

Firefly might have been groundbreaking for its blend of sci-fi and Western elements, but it is far from being the only fun and creative sci-fi TV show out there. Over a decade after Firefly was ...