How Badly Fox Screwed Up 'Firefly'

I know that fox Fox Screwed Up ‘Firefly’, but I didn’t realize just how messed up the whole deal was:

In fact the whole production was almost derailed before it started by a disagreement over a basic plot point. Fox executives didn’t like that Serenity spaceship second-in-command Zoe (Gina Torres) was happily married to pilot Wash (Alan Tudyk), with no romance between her and Captain Malcolm Reynold’s (Nathon Fillion).