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Science Channel airs Firefly Sunday, March 20 (VIDEO)

By April MacIntyre Mar 16, 2011, 21:23 GMT

Nathan Fillion and guest - San Diego Comic Con International 2010 - Entertainment Weekly and SyFy Party - Hotel Solamar - San Diego, CA, USA © Alan Hess / PR Photos

Tune in alert for Firefly on the Science Channel. A new episode airs this Sunday, March 20 @ 10PM ET/PT

Episode 3 – SHINDIG
Hoping to initiate a smuggling transaction, Captain Mal attends an elegant social event with his engineer Kaylee, much to her happiness. But when Mal upsets a wealthy man who hired Inara, the seductive prostitute, as his companion, he is challenged to a sword fight.

From the creator of the hit TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Joss Whedon delves into the final frontier with "Firefly," which lands exclusively on the Science Channel.

"Firefly" will dominate the airwaves every Sunday with an encore episode of the previous week airing 9pm ET to be followed by the network premiere of the next episode in the series airing at 10pm ET.

As a special treat for "Firefly" fans, star of Science Channel's "Sci-Fi Science," and the co-founder of string field theory, Dr. Michio Kaku, will be commentating on the science behind "Firefly" for each episode. From terraforming, to anti-matter, Kaku will be explaining why the science fiction featured in the show really isn't that far from science fact.

When "Firefly" first aired in 2002, Whedon's sci-fi western quickly became a cult favorite. Set 500 years in the future, in the aftermath of a universal civil war, the story centers on the renegade crew of a small transport spaceship led by "Castle's" Nathan Fillion, who directs the ragtag team through adventures into unknown parts of the galaxy.