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I really think that Peter Suderman is on to something here with his article on Serenity versus Star Trek. I am a life-long Trekker and newly minted "browncoat" who buys the multi-ethnic message of the Trek franchise whilst rejecting it's big government/post-money economics. Yet I had not seriously considered the political message of Serenity (and Firefly).

Serenity resonates with me on several levels -- I don't suppose that Suderman has ever read any of Jerry Pournelle's "CoDominium" stories, has he? And oddly enough, the best-selling geostrategic book The Pentagon's New Map talks about a rich and prosperous "Core" and a cruder outside world that the author calls "The Gap." And in Joss Whedon's "verse," the Alliance dominates from The Core against the Rim. Hmmmm.

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