Maybe. Or you could go with the more likely excuse that I misremembered the number of Firefly epsiodes.
Which ever makes you feel better.
I’ll grant you that: A Star Destroyer wouldn’t leave enough wreckage of one of those flying skyscrapers to be worth the salvage. But Niska vs. Jabba? I’d be a lot more afraid of a psychopathic Russian with nasty knives than I would be of an overgrown desert slug.
Meanwhile, both Jayne and Mal alike would consider it a great failure on their part if they ever somehow ended up getting in a fair fight. And Han, too, for that matter.
No matter how one sided that battle is, I would pay to watch it 
Yeah, Niska is pretty scary, but what about his so-called reputation? I don’t think he really backs it up. He’s a nasty sadist to whomever comes into his web; however, like a spider, anything outside his web is free and clear. If he’s so terribly bent on torturing failures, why did he leave Mal alone until Mal (stupidly) came to Niska’s planet? Jabba will reach out and snatch you with bounty hunters or whomever. As soon as Mal left Niska’s system, he was safe; Han was never really safe from Jabba. He may be a big garden slug — you’re right about that — but you’ll never sleep peacefully until you’ve squared yourself with him.
Don’t confues differences in scale 'twixt the two 'verses as differences in capabilities.
Saying Star Wars has it over Serenity is like saying the U.S.A. has it all over England just 'cause we’re bigger. Taint so.
“Mal” owes a lot to Han Solo, a fact I think Joss Whedon would acknowledge. It’s just that Joss told a down-to-Earth story about a jaded Rebel who hasn’t quite given up the fight, whereas George told (or tried to, anyway) a larger-than-life epic which featured a jaded scoundrel as one of the main charaters.
If Han is a “wussy,” it’s cause George made him so in his movie-maker to marketing-mogul transition between TESB and RotJ. The Han we first saw in '77 is just as much a bad-ass as Mal.
I think Joss breathed more “heart” into his characters as a writer and director than George ever could, which is why I like Mal & Co. so much more than the whole Star Wars Epic.
And Demo:
Did you even watch RotS? Yoda got his little green hiney smacked and did the bugout boogie. If Palpy had been paying attention and concentrating on the fight instead of cackling like a loon, Yoda would’ve been a small splotch of green like a bug on a windshield. Boob.
Kaylee giving someone an oil bath… Now I’ll be in my bunk.
I want a switchblade just so that I can eat apples like Jayne does.
Oily men and knives? Now I’ll be in my bunk!
wait a minute… When did I become Homebrew, goddammit!?
Dude, he never even got into his wife’s pants.
Maybe, but how about she and Inara cheerlead in gold-mail slave bikinis?
Mal: Um…Saffron…i-it…it ain’t a question of pleasing me. It’s more a question of what’s…um, of what’s morally right.
Saffron: I do know my Bible, sir. “On the night of their betrothal, the wife shall open to the man as the furrow to the plow. And he shall work in her in and again 'til she bring him to his full and rest him then upon the sweat of her breast.”
Mal: Oh. Good Bible.
Do you blame him? After Book’s threats?
Book: If you take sexual advantage of her you’re going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.
Mal: What…? I am not… preacher, you got a smutty mind!
Book: Perhaps I spoke out of turn. I apologize. I’ll make her up a room on the passenger dorm.
Mal: Good
(departing)
Book: A special Hell.
wolfman, I find your ideas fascinating and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Actually, I was just hoping you had some secret, bootleg, never-before-seen episodes stashed somewhere you could share with us.
A guy can dream!