When I was a kid, cowboys ruled. Every week, my heroes—Lucas McCain, the Cartwrights, Matt Dillon, Paladin, Big John Cannon—were taming the “wild west.” These were good guys, in charge and on a mission. But in the world around us, everything was changing. 1969 was a turning point. Everything was suddenly in Technicolor, and as we gave up on the West and turned to outer space for our hero-adventures, our heroes morphed from Cowboys to Space-Pirate-Cowboys. These space-pirate-cowboys (or big damn heroes) manage to do the right thing as they improvise their (opportunistic) ethics of friendship.

我小时候，牛仔们统治着。每个星期，我的英雄们-卢卡斯·麦凯恩（Lucas McCain），卡特赖特夫妇（Cartwrights），马特·狄龙（Matt Dillon），圣骑士（Paladin），大约翰·坎农（Big John Cannon）—驯服“狂野的西部”。这些都是好人，负责并执行任务。但是在我们周围的世界中，一切都在变化。1969年是一个转折点。一切突然间都变成了Technicolor，当我们放弃西方而转向外太空进行英雄冒险时，我们的英雄从牛仔变成了太空海盗-牛仔。这些太空海盗牛仔（或那些该死的英雄）在即兴发挥他们的（机会主义）友谊伦理时，设法做正确的事情。