Firefly. Precicely.
I haven’t had TV since 97. One day (about six months ago) I was listening to sattelite radio in a rental car and loved some music I heard. It was from a movie “Serenity”. I decided to rent it.
But they guy at the rental store said I would be disappointed if I didn’t see the TV show it was based on. I rented disc one. I was blown away. My wife even liked it. I then found that two of my work mates owned the original season and they loaned it to me. I was further blown away. It is actually part comedy and is the closest thing to the original Star Trek I have seen.
Then I rented the movie. Holy cow, what a tremendous story, and some reasonably good special effects. I loved it.
I now own the series and the Movie. I’ve already watched all of it twice.
I really do believe that if you don’t watch the series, the movie is going to be a non-starter.
Huh? Firefly is the anti-ST:TOS.
Kirk would not come aboard, and blow away a gub'mint agent without so much as "Can we talk?", and a hug.
Mal Reynolds did.
And the movie can stand by itself, imo, although I did see "Firefly" when it was on the Skiffy Channel.