If you’re a fan of both Syfy’s hit series "Warehouse 13" and Joss Whedon’s cancelled-before-its-time space western "Firefly," then there’s a treat in store for you.

The second season of "Warehouse 13" will feature not one, but two stars from "Firefly" in a guest appearance no Whedonite would want to miss.

Jewel Staite and Sean Maher, who played Kaylee Frye and Dr. Simon Tam respectively on "Firefly," will both appear as guest stars in the Season 2 episode of "Warehouse 13," “Mild Mannered.” Much like on "Firefly," these two actors will portray characters who share an unrequited love of sorts.

In the episode, Maher plays a shy guy who gets exposed to a dangerous object that changes him physically, while Staite plays the unknowing object of his affection.

To those not as familiar with the Syfy series, "Warehouse 13" is a dramedy that centers on two Secret Service agents played by Eddie McClintock and Joanne Kelly who work in a secret facility in the Dakotas that houses countless historical – albeit, supernatural – artifacts.

The series managed to receive the highest ratings ever for Syfy last season, pulling in 4.1 million viewers.

"Warehouse 13" also stars Saul Rubinek and Allison Scagliotti. The second season premieres July 13 on Syfy.

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We posted about the return date last week, but here’s a press release from Syfy with more data:

SYFY’S HIT SERIES, WAREHOUSE 13 BEGINS SEASON TWO PRODUCTION THIS MARCH LEADING TO ITS SUMMER PREMIERE ON TUESDAY, JULY 13

Eddie McClintock, Joanne Kelly, Saul Rubinek, Allison Scagliotti and CCH Pounder

All Return For Second Season Pick-Up

Nolan Funk (Nickelodeon’s Spectacular) To Guest Star In Four Episode Storyline

New York, NY – March 2, 2010 – Syfy’s #1 original hit series, Warehouse 13, commences production on season two this March in Toronto and will kick off the new season with a summer premiere on Tuesday, July 13.  Series regulars, Eddie McClintock, Joanne Kelly, Saul Rubinek and Allison Scagliotti, along with series guest star, CCH Pounder, reprise their roles in the series ratings leader for Syfy.  The 13 episode, hour-long dramedy is slated to return this summer 2010.

Nickelodeon star, Nolan Funk (Spectacular, Drake & Josh) guest stars in a four-episode storyline in season two.  Funk portrays Todd, a tech savvy local who takes a special romantic interest in Claudia (Scagliotti). This budding relationship is put to the test by the secrets they are forced to keep from one another. 

Warehouse 13 follows two Secret Service agents who find themselves abruptly transferred to a massive, top-secret storage facility in windswept South Dakota which houses every strange artifact, mysterious relic, fantastical object and supernatural souvenir ever collected by the U.S. government. The Warehouse’s caretaker Artie (Saul Rubinek) charges Pete (Eddie McClintock) and Myka (Joanne Kelly) with chasing down reports of supernatural and paranormal activity in search of new objects to cache at the Warehouse, as well as helping him to control the Warehouse itself.

Warehouse 13 became the all-time Syfy leader in total viewers (4.1 million), Adults 25-54 (2.1 million) and Household ratings (2.9), as measured by 7-Day DVR data, making it the most successful series in Syfy’s 17-year history.

Warehouse 13 is produced for Syfy by Universal Cable Productions.  Jack Kenny (The Book of Daniel), returns as showrunner.

Syfy is a media destination for imagination-based entertainment. With year round acclaimed original series, events, blockbuster movies, classic science fiction and fantasy programming, a dynamic Web site (www.Syfy.com), and a portfolio of adjacent business (Syfy Ventures), Syfy is a passport to limitless possibilities. Originally launched in 1992 as SCI FI Channel, and currently in 95 million homes, Syfy is a network of NBC Universal, one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies. Syfy. Imagine greater.

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Bob Goodman, one of the writers on Warehouse 13, offers some insights into the creative process as this series moves from its first to second season, and shares his theory about why a "storehouse of weirdness" show caught the zeitgeist.

Note: What follows is one writer's opinion, and doesn't represent the thoughts of the staff as a whole, the studio, the network, or anyone else. And spoilers abound. But only about season one, which has already aired. Want more insights? A Twitter Q&A is happening today at 1 PM PST, including Goodman (@b0bg00dman), plus fellow writers Drew Greenberg (@drewzachary) and Deric Hughes (@dblackanese) and actor Allison Scagliotti (@allisonscag).

I'll admit it. At first I wasn't sure about the disco ball.

We were writing the first season of Warehouse 13. The episode was "Duped" (written by Benjamin Raab and Deric A. Hughes), and it's a story in which Pete and Myka (our leads, a pair of Secret Service agents played by Eddie McClintock and Joanne Kelly) are on a mission to hunt down a lucky poker chip. But unbeknownst to the rest of the team, Myka's consciousness has switched places with that of Alice Liddell (Lewis Carroll's real-life inspiration for his lead character in Alice in Wonderland) who, in our historically-revised universe, was really a violently insane girl who previous Warehouse agents trapped in Carroll's famous titular looking glass.

Complicated enough, right? Wait. The cause of this Myka-Alice flip-flop was an "adverse artifact interaction" between Carroll's mirror and the disco ball from Studio 54.

To me, at first, it seemed like an artifact too far. And that was before we got to junior member of the team Claudia (Allison Scagliotti) cobbling together a pile of repurposed artifacts, wires and knobs to create a steampunk-ized, CIA-inspired laser mic, in order to communicate with the trapped Myka inside the mirror.

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