Display MoreThe Wing Commander movie club is back from our vacation to Westworld and, well, there are still a few bugs to be worked out. The movie holds up very well, it's still tremendously fun. Objectively, you recognize that it isn't much of a story as over half the run time is devoted to setting up the world and explaining how the theme park works… but subjectively, that's the fun part and Michael Crichton made exactly the right choice focusing on what's actually most interesting here. And after so many somber British war movies, its breezy sub-90-minute run time was certainly a nice feature!
We already talked about Michael Crichton's star system in the intro post so there's not a lot more to say about Westworld's connection to Wing Commander! We did manage to find one almost-reference: hidden in Privateer 2's data is a list of ships for an earlier version of the booth database which is totally different from anything in the game... and it includes one seemingly named after Westworld's Gunslinger. Here's the complete list, which deserves further study; very few of these made it into the final game!
Adrilak
Airhead
Alpha
Aswan
Aurora
Baldesh
Bigfoot
Bikila
Blackdog
Blackfire
Blask
Borrealis
Brave
Canberra
Chaos
Cloc
Cygnus
Danrik
Defector
Dionysus
Dogstar
Doppelganger
Drakkar
Dreamstate
Duress
Eclipse
Eradicator
Excalibur
Eye Of The Storm
Faldari
Famagusta
Flipside
Freij
Funkbuster
Garios
Gazar
Geek
Geo
Glutino
Gunslinger
Headfirst
Helter Skelter
Heretic
Herima
Hyppolita
Icarus
Ilia
Iron horse
Isaoko
Jendevi
Jinter
Judar
Kabaka
Kalrechi
Kalthike
Karnene
Kassar
Ketra
Kitrum
Lady Of The Lake
Lazarus
Liberty
Lima
Lionheart
Lucitania
Masrada
Miguez
Ogan
Olura
Olympus
Omega
Papagos
Patriot
Police Ship Sweeney
Presto
Red Dragon
S.S. Amelia
S.S. Ballistic
S.S. Caroline
S.S. Manchester
S.S. Manhattan
Salvia
Scarecrow
Shadowcaster
Shaman
Skeces
Sledgehammer
Sundog
Tempest
Titania
Trigo
Trojan Horse
Vacuum Oasis
Varjner
Veldor
Velecia
Vetrece
Victor
Vindicator
Violator
White Lightning
Yabar
Yackard
Zeus
ZionAnd you can come up with your own Wing Commander I joke for this one! (We just call him Maniac?)
Sully doesn't understand what all the fuss is, there's already a park themed around something he wants to kill (Disney World).
