10 Movies That Did Star Trek Better Than Star Trek‏

3. Serenity

What it gets right: Even more than Guardians Of The Galaxy Of course Joss Whedon gets it. He's a massive dork who probably spent all of high school (when he wasn't reading Angela Carter and pulling the wings off of flies) trying to perfect Spock's "live long and prosper" hand gesture. The geek writer supreme who hit the scene hard with Buffy The Vampire Slayer and recently helmed every fanboy's wet dream - and box office record-breaker - The Avengers got to do his sci-fi thing, albeit briefly, with his early noughties series Firefly. Unfortunately that show was the victim of a network snafu - namely Fox being terrible people - and got cancelled after one series. It got resurrected briefly, however, with movie sequel Serenity, Whedon's big screen directorial debut. Like the TV show Serenity was mainly Star Wars fan fiction for the writer/director, with Nathan Fillion standing in for Han Solo as Mal Reynolds, captain of a pirate ship. But in space. He leads a merry band of smugglers across the more dangerous parts of the cosmos in a ramshackle Millennium Falcon analogue but, really, the world-building and the character drama between the crew reminds us more of Star Trek than anything else. Plus the Reavers are totally the Borg. Only less scary.