It’s almost certainly my head space!

One thing that occurs to me is that I’ve declared, based on the illustration I pulled out of the aether here, that it’s not aerodynamic. They have shuttles. So like…genre-y stuff like The Train Job don’t work because they don’t have something like the Serenity to operate from.

But then again a lot of the stuff that happens on Firefly happens because of the crew’s skills, attitude and history, not because of the boat they’re on.