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Firefly was an American science-fiction television program created by Joss Whedon. It was introduced as a mid-season replacement on the Fox channel in 2002. Fox cancelled the program after airing 11 of the 14 produced episodes. However, the show captured a small but extremely devoted fan following, and high DVD sales led to the production of a follow-up feature film directed by Whedon, "Serenity," in 2005.

The show is set 500 years in the future, after humanity has fled earth and terraformed the planets and moons of a neighboring solar system. The story follows the crew of the Firefly-class spaceship Serenity, whose captain and first mate are former members of the Independants, a recently defeated military movement against the system's centralized government, known as the Alliance. The war for Indpendence in the Firefly universe has strong parallels to the American Civil War, and indeed despite its space-opera setting Firefly's locations and characters are strongly reminiscent of American westerns.

The show is notable for its total lack of aliens and its use of muted sounds in space, both of which are unusual in space opera.

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