Malcom Reynolds and the browncoats are vaguely Confederate-coded which isn't great.
Plus I hate to admit it but Firefly was one of the earlier examples of the Whedon-esque marvel dialogue that plagues TV and movies now
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goes back to buffy really. i mean it was a refreshing change of pace back then, before it became the way everyone in every visual medium communicated forever
Yea buffy suffers the same issue where when it was new the way the dialogue was written was a breath of fresh air but going back to watch them now they seem almost dated and stale because they were so foundational to modern movie dialogue
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Whedon was at least well-read, and was capable of making characters talk in more ordinary language during heavier scenes. And he had an exceptional talent for writing the entire ensemble densely interacting with each other in ways that had every character develop.
The imitators are so much worse - they cover all their deficits as storytellers with constant witticisms (increasingly rooted in memes instead of books), and while Whedon sometimes interrupted dramatic moments with comic relief, the imitators are too afraid of even momentary sincerity to ever not do so.
Where Whedon had the problems of liberalism, his imitators are the hollowed-out vapid neoliberal commodity left over.
I was going to say not my fav Sisko, but even him, damn 
is he ever a "starship" captain though? (he's a detective seen here in the movie 15 Minutes) 
this is Defiant erasure.
Edward James Olmos did it backwards (Blade Runner to BSG, as fascistic as BSG was)