11 December 2003
Dec. 8, 2003. 01:00 AM Firefly’s new wings courtesy of DVD
ROB SALEM
Back in the early ’60s, when Star Trek was initially cancelled just two years into its "five-year mission," the fans had no recourse but to inundate the network with an avalanche of outraged mail.
Incredibly, it worked. For another year, anyway. For the fans, emboldened at having succeeded where no fan had dared to go before, the crisis forged an alliance so strong it endures to this day - as indeed does the Star Trek (...)