
Tomorrow marks the fifteenth anniversary of the "The Train Job", the first episode of Firefly to be broadcast. Like Star Trek's "The Man Trap" it was not intended to be the first episode shown. But TV execs know best. 2017 is also the minus 500th anniversary of Firefly, which is set in 2517. It's nice to think that as the human race abandoned Earth That Was, someone thought to bring alone Chinese checkers. Source.