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“I love spaceships,” Whedon said. “I love sci-fi. I love hard-science sci-fi. I wanted to do a show without latex. I wanted to come back down to Earth and do a western. I wanted to make STAGECOACH really bad and that was the impetus. [I don’t think] there will be aliens three or four hundred years from now [when FIREFLY is set]. There would just be people, and that’s the point. They’re not smarter, they’re not better. War hasn’t been abolished. Some of them are decent, some of them aren’t. Some are just trying to scrape by after being trodden on by history. … It’s a very low-tech show. It’s a sort of immigrant story, taking from all the cultures we already have and imagining them spread out over a galaxy.”

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Originally posted by Novagrass:
I want Firefly to be as realistic as humanly possible. To date, a viable vision of future society has yet to have been developed in modern entertainment, and I sorta want Joss to be the first.

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Originally posted by Haken:
So until those and many other questions get answered somewhat, Firefly remains a science fantasy series as opposed to a science fiction series. Don't get me wrong, science fantasy is fine with me as long as it adheres to its own logic and be consistent with it.

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