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Browncoats please attend.

It has won multiple sci-fi awards.

It has a cult following that rivals Wars and Trek. You doubt this? Next sci-fi convention you attend(or mock if that’s what’s blowing up your skirt these days) be sure to run a tally of Vulcan ears and Stormtroopers vs. the sheer amount of Jayne Hats. The answer may surprise you.

It also has a permanent residence in space! The International Space Station to be exact. Low earth orbit to be even exact-er.

What we’re talking about is the oft-lamented, killed by Fox TV executives, science fiction western epic that is Firefly. Just yesterday we learned this shiny ‘verse is set to fly the skies of cable television again. Sure it’ll be re-runs of a show that any proper Browncoat already owns on DVD or Blu Ray. But The Science Channel is adding the extra wrinkle of Dr. Michio Kaku discussing how the show’s sci-fi matches with real science. There’s nothing like a popular physicist pointing out that line between real and fantasy we always say.

Here we see part of the EW interview with Nathan Fillion wherein he gives Browncoats all over the world false hope.

EW: If Castle had its series finale tomorrow and Fox said to you and Joss: “We screwed up, let’s try doing Firefly again.” Would you do it?
Nathan Fillion: Yes. Yes. I would examine very closely Fox’s reasoning — I’m a little gun-shy. If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to Firefly, make it own my own, and distribute it on the Internet.

[…]

EW: Why do you think the show has had such an enduring appeal?
Nathan Fillion: It’s a great question. We’re the most story-literate society the world has ever seen. What Joss tends to do is twist story conventions into reality. Whereas the story goes like this, real life goes like this, and that’s what Joss has mastered.

Help Nathan Fillion Buy Firefly.com
What a difference 24 hours makes. In that sparse bit of time Internet has decided to take Fillion up on his comment about buying Firefly. Our friends at Geeks of Doom have taken the lead on this story.

How powerful is Nathan Fillion, the actor who portrayed Captain Malcolm Reynolds in the short-lived sci-fi television show Firefly?

Powerful enough so that fans take any suggestion to resurrect the show literally despite a highly unlikely success rate.

Check out GoD’s full breakdown on the likelihood of this getting anywhere shiny. (Please realize our inner geek squees at the thought of new episodes of Firefly but we also think putting said money on a worthy real-life cause would be even more shiny.) Then drop below the cut to see official sites, including a Facebook, and peek at The Plan to bring nerdgasm to Browncoats worldwide.

Official sites:
http://helpnathanbuyfirefly.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Help-Nathan-Buy-Firefly/

The Plan:

Phase 1) Generate momentum. We’re going to setup a way people can pledge funding towards the mission of putting the rights to Firefly back into the hands of people who care about it. Since Nathan said he’d be game to be those hands, we’re going to watch for …

Phase 2) Nathan chimes in towards us and approves the effort. At that point, it’s a real mission and we’ll switch into…

Phase 3) We’ll setup a way for the funding to be collected into a Non-Profit Organization. We’ll then want everyone to make good on their pledge and contribute.

Throughout all of this, we’ll have up the running tally of pledges and actuals.

UPDATE: Thankfully Maurissa Tancharoen, Dr Horrible and Dollhouse writer tweeted that the Whedonverse does not back the Help Nathan Buy Firefly movement. We say “thankfully” because there are a lot of better causes that deserve that kind of money.

Tancharoen wrote that “no one in the Whedonverse is in support” of the campaign, which she later clarified to make sure fans understood no one was AGAINST the fund-raising attempt, just that “no one is officially involved in any capacity” and “I wasn’t trying to bash dreams … but when money is involved … things get tricky.”

Bonus!

Even Community loves Firefly:

via @followmal, EW, AV Club, geeks of doom