hour pilot "Serenity" also featured a scene in Simons cabin with him  and Zoe: hes listening to an encyclopedia entry on the Battle of Serenity  Valley, from which the ship gets its name, and she comes in and gives an  eyewitness account of it, from Mal commanding over 2000 people after a week  due to high officer casualties, to both sides stacking corpses for cover, to  medical relief for both sides being held back for a week after a cease