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* Joss Whedon originally cast Rebecca Gayheart as Inara.▼
== Non-Trope Trivia ==
* Joss Whedon had cast Summer Glau before Firefly - she originally appeared as a Prima Ballerina on the "Angel" (1999) episode "Waiting in the Wings". Whedon remembered her from this and contacted her about the part of River.▼
▲* [[Joss Whedon]] originally cast [[Rebecca Gayheart]] as Inara.
* Chinese phrases are often inserted into the English dialogue (sometimes to get away with saying things that the censors wouldn't allow them to say), and the ship has some signs in Chinese.▼
▲* Joss Whedon had cast [[Summer Glau]] before ''Firefly'' - she originally appeared as a Prima Ballerina on the "[[Angel]]" (1999) episode "Waiting in the Wings". Whedon remembered her from this and contacted her about the part of River.
▲* Chinese phrases, primarily Mandarin, are often inserted into the English dialogue (sometimes to get away with saying things that the censors wouldn't allow them to say), and the ship has some signs in Chinese. In "Out of Gas", the Chinese used over the Life Support Klaxon warning is the Cantonese dialect.
** In the DVD subtitles, this is referred to as a [[Pardon My Klingon|"Galactic Language"]].
* In the original conception of the show, Joss Whedon was only going to have five main characters on the ship. Throughout the development process, the character list got upped to nine.
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* Some of the weapons used in the series were present-day weapons, which were picked based on their somewhat futuristic look. No modifications were made by the prop department to either disguise them or make them more look more futuristic. Alliance soldiers are seen carrying Enfield L85 rifles, which have been standard issue in the British Army since the early 1980s. The Browncoats are seen using Heckler & Koch G36 rifles, which are standard issue in the German Army.
* In several episodes (for example "The Train Job"), Jayne wears a German police jacket (green, military style), from the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate (German: Rheinland-Pfalz). This can be recognized by the badge on the right sleeve with the word "Polizei" (German for police) on the top and the emblem of Rhineland-Palatinate underneath.
* The lever-action Winchester carbine carried by Zoe throughout the series is an example of the [
** This same weapon is used by Woody Harrelson's character Tallahassee in ''[[
* The DVDs of Firefly were flown up to the International Space Station by astronaut Steven Swanson on board the shuttle Atlantis during its June 2007 STS-117 mission.
* Every scene in space is shot without sound effects of the ship moving, precisely as it would in real vacuum. [[Sound in Space|No air, no sound.]] (Note this does not cover [[Mickey Mousing|dramatic music]] that plays during space scenes.)
* According to an oral history of
* The sound made by Mal's hand gun is the same sound as the eponymous character's hand gun in the Spaghetti Western [[Django]] (1966), played by Franco Nero.
* The "Crazy Ivan" maneuver pulled by Wash in the pilot is inspired by a nearly-identical submarine maneuver. It was used during the early days of the Cold War by Russian submarines, in order to check the "baffle", the sonar dead zone directly behind the submarine; and given the name "Crazy Ivan" by US and allied submarine crews. The adoption of towed sonar arrays effectively ended the necessity for the "Crazy Ivan" maneuver. Referenced in its original context in ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]''.
* A bit of [[Hey Its That Guy]] / [[Retroactive Recognition]]. [[Zac Efron]] played young Simon.▼
== Trivia Tropes ==
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* [[The Wiki Rule]]: [https://firefly.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page The Firefly and Serenity Database] on [[Wikia|FANDOM]].
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