Nathan Fillion

Nathan Fillion, space rogue from the Firefly series, will guest-star on ABC’s island drama.

Lost is about to give viewers a whole lot of Nathan.

Nathan Fillion, star of the short-lived cult sci-fi series Firefly, is stepping onto the Lost island, says SciFi.com. The former space captain will guest-star on the November 8 episode, which is the last episode before the series takes a 13-week break, returning on February 7.

In the Lost episode, titled "I Do," Fillion plays a character named Kevin The episode is being touted as the one where Kate (Evangeline Lilly) makes her decision about which man she is going to hook up with—good doctor Jack (Matthew Fox) or rapscallion Sawyer (Josh Holloway).

Fillion played Captain Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds on Fox’s 2002 show Firefly, Joss Whedon’s follow-up to his hit Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The show, about a space mercenary and his scrappy band of pals trying to evade an evil galactic empire, never found its footing in the ratings and was canceled midseason. A movie based on the show, Serenity, was released last summer.