Article note: The entrenched commercial journalists are getting faster at attacking the legitimacy of anything that might undermine their increasingly fragile established power.
Zoë: You sanguine about the kinda reception we’re apt to receive on an Alliance ship, Captain? Mal: Absolutely. What’s “sanguine” mean? Zoë: Sanguine. Hopeful. Plus, point of interest, it also means “bloody”. Mal: Well, that pretty much covers all the options, don’t it?