As much as I’d hate to admit it, I have to agree.
I can’t think of who’d be Angel equivalent of Wash.
Definitely early Wesley. Before he got all dark and angsty.
Please explain. How does River sense that?
If you’d prefer, although the Ninth is traditional. 
I would say later Wesley after he got a little more competant.
She’s an empath and a psychic.
Um, she just does? All that stuff they did to her brain?
It’s the BORG!! Oh no it’s only the Alliance.
When you’re right, you’re right.
Wash also serves as a source of comic relief. Wesley is too brooding and serious to be considered comic sidekick kind of a character. Most similar in that regard would be Lorn, but that’s not quite right either!
That is perhaps the funniest thing I’ve heard all day!
NOOOOO!!! Not the Ninth! How could you…NOOOOO!!
Wasn’t it originally a natural ability that they exploited?
the borg wouldn’t wear those stupid hats
She was REALLY smart and they jsut made he a little more intuitive.
Nope, the Alliance fraaked with her brain.
She is a small bit of mind-reading abilities. It’s one of many mysteries of Firefly-verse we never got to fully explore.
She’s got some psychic abilities, doesn’t she?
Right- kind of like knocking down the natural barriers and opening her up to every psychic occurrence out there.
That too…
Those really are stupid hats.
I love the interview/interrogation stuff coming up