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''Serenity'' is a fictional spaceship that appears in Joss Whedon's ''Firefly'' television series and related works. Set in the 26th century, the series follows the nine-person crew of the ''Firefly''-class vessel, a small transport ship, as they earn a living through various legal and illegal means. The ship is the main setting; it appears in all fourteen episodes, the film, and several comics. The ship was designed by director Joss Whedon, production designer Carey Meyer, and visual effects supervisor Loni Peristere. The collaboration led to more consistency between the live-action and digital effects representations of ''Serenity'' than is usual in science-fiction works. Two contiguous sets were built, between them containing the entirety of the ship's interior, which provided several advantages to the cast and crew during filming. The digital model of the ship was created by Zoic Studios, who also developed methods to digitally replicate live-action filming techniques, a first for television. These allowed digital renderings of the ship to blend in with the documentary/found-footage filming style of the live-action scenes. ''Serenity'' is described by Whedon as the "tenth character" of the series.〔Joss Whedon, in ''Serenity: The 10th Character'', 00:52–01:14〕 Some reviews compare the ship to the ''Millennium Falcon'' in the Star Wars franchise. She has made cameo appearances in the ''Battlestar Galactica'' miniseries and the ''Star Wars: Evasive Action'' webcomic. ==Fictional background== ''Serenity'' first appeared in the pilot episode of Joss Whedon's ''Firefly'', which is set in the year 2517, in a star system humanity migrated to after using all of Earth's resources. She is the property of Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds (Nathan Fillion), a former sergeant who served on the losing side of a civil war that ended six years before the series began.〔Shooting script for "Serenity". In ''Firefly: The Official Companion - Volume One'', pp 14–18〕 Mal acquires ''Serenity'' from a used spaceship yard after the war (as depicted in flashbacks during "Out of Gas"), intending to hire a small crew and take various jobs to support himself and wartime comrade Corporal Zoe Alleyne, while keeping out of the way of the Alliance, the multi-planetary government they were fighting against.〔Shooting script for "Out of Gas". In ''Firefly: The Official Companion - Volume Two'', p. 41〕 Other flashbacks in "Out of Gas" show how the rest of the main crew came to join the ship; pilot Hoban "Wash" Washburne (Alan Tudyk), engineer Kaylee Frye (Jewel Staite), and mercenary Jayne Cobb (Adam Baldwin), as well as Inara Serra (Morena Baccarin), a courtesan who hires out one of ''Serenity''’s two shuttlecraft. At the start of the series, the episode "Serenity" depicts the arrival of the other three members of the ensemble cast as passengers aboard the ship: the preacher (or shepherd) Derrial Book (Ron Glass), the fugitive doctor Simon Tam (Sean Maher), and his psychic and psychotic sister River (Summer Glau). In the original pilot episode, "Serenity", ''Serenity'' is described as a ''Firefly''-class transport ship by an Alliance starship crew, while Shepherd Book identifies her as an "aught three" model, with both parties implying that the class is an old design.〔Shooting script for "Serenity". In ''Firefly: The Official Companion - Volume One'', pgs. 20, 24〕 In the episode "The Train Job", which was created as a replacement pilot episode when Fox decided that the original pilot was not good enough to be aired, River identifies the ship as a "Midbulk transport, standard radion-accelerator core, classcode 03-K64, ''Firefly''".〔Shooting script for "The Train Job". In ''Firefly: The Official Companion - Volume One'', p. 57〕 Although never stated in the aired episodes, the ship's name comes from the Battle of Serenity Valley, the final action of the civil war Mal and Zoe fought in. The revelation was made in a deleted scene from the episode "Serenity", where Zoe tells Simon that "Once you've been in Serenity (), you never leave. You just learn to live there."〔Shooting script for "Serenity". In ''Firefly: The Official Companion - Volume One'', p. 43〕 The Serenity Valley connection is mentioned in the episode "Bushwhacked", although the reason behind the name is not given.〔Shooting script for "Bushwhacked". In ''Firefly: The Official Companion - Volume One'', p. 57〕 The capabilities of the ship are not elaborated on in aired material, beyond the fact that she is small, unarmed, and defenseless except for her speed and "crybabies": decoy buoys used to mimic other ships (in the episode "Serenity") or ''Serenity'' herself (in the film ''Serenity''). In 2007, Geoffrey Mandel, the graphic designer from the film, and Tim Earls, the series illustrator and film set designer, produced an official set of ''Serenity'' blueprints, which included technical data for the ship. According to the blueprints, ''Serenity'' was laid down in August 2459.〔Geoffrey Mandel & Timothy Earls, (2007). ''Official Serenity Blueprint Set''. Quantum Mechanix (QMx SER-004).〕 The ship is long bow to stern, with a beam, and stands high when landed.〔 ''Serenity'' has a curb weight of , can carry of cargo and 18 passengers, can accelerate at 4.2 g, and has a range of 440 astronomical units when carrying minimal cargo.〔 ''Serenity'' and ships of her type are constantly talked down; in various episodes, ''Serenity'' is referred to as a "flying piece of ''go se'' (Mandarin Chinese for crap)",〔Shooting script for "Shindig". In ''Firefly: The Official Companion - Volume One'', p. 112〕〔Shooting script for "Out of Gas". In ''Firefly: The Official Companion - Volume Two'', p. 58〕 "''luh-suh'' (garbage)",〔Shooting script for "Safe". In ''Firefly: The Official Companion - Volume One'', p. 129〕 or "junk".〔Shooting script for "Out of Gas". In ''Firefly: The Official Companion - Volume Two'', pgs. 41, 56〕 However, in the episode "Our Mrs. Reynolds", a mechanic from a starship chop shop claims that while the ship is a load of worthless parts and isn't as attractive as other vessels, the value of a ''Firefly''-class ship comes from its durability and ease of repair.〔Shooting script for "Our Mrs. Reynolds". In ''Firefly: The Official Companion - Volume One'', p. 163〕 Kaylee regularly defends the reputation of the ship, while Whedon regards ''Serenity'' as the tenth character of the series, as the relationships between the characters and the ship and how the audience reacts to the ship is as important as the relationships between and the reactions to the other main characters.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Serenity (Firefly vessel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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