Star Trek: Your Vision

[Dire_Flumph]

I'd put Firefly's failure on FOX advertising and executive shenanigans before placing the episodes out of order. I watched Firefly when it aired and thought "The Train Job" did an adequate job of setting up the characters (apparently it was retooled after the networks told Bad Robot they weren't going to air the pilot) and I didn't have any trouble following the story afterwards.

But look at this and tell me if that's anything you'd want to watch unless you were like me at the time and gave every sci fi show on TV at least a chance. And that's about as much push as I ever saw FOX give the show.