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The Wing Commander movie club's informed opinion is… that The Phantom Menace holds up pretty well. It actually seems fairly different watching it a quarter of a century on: what once felt like wall to wall CG is actually endless practical shots. Stuff that felt like it flew by at the time is actually slow and thinky compared to modern action movies. It's interesting!

We talked all about the endless–and ultimately pointless–battle for the Phantom Menace trailer and Wing Commander… so how did the story end? The Phantom Menace immediately invited a different look at Wing Commander; the much more expensive SFX weren't particularly better and it actually felt just about as 'different' from the original Star Wars movies as Wing Commander did. And in the end, the movie that tried to stifle a video game was itself felled by a video game: analysts blamed the Pokemon-inspired anime craze on Phantom Menace's lack

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This is a reminder that we have another fun #Wingnut movie night planned on Discord this evening! The ongoing theme will be movies that are referenced by Wing Commander in some way. Tonight's film is The Terminator (1984) and you can find details on why we're watching it in the announcement post here. The movie will start at 7 PM PST/10 PM EST but feel free to drop by and hang any time!

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Here's a June-July 2001 issue of Teen People that catches up with Freddie Prinze Jr. that's complete with a two-page pinup of the superstar actor. We're highlighting it only for his single quote about the Wing Commander movie, which is an idea that has perhaps been expressed nowhere else, ever: "the animatronic creatures looked like Garfield." Freddie, no! The problem is they didn't look like Garfield.

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Earlier this summer, we put together a quick 'atlas' of Wing Commander Academy that shows how consistent the locations are in each episode. Well, the natural next step is to take a look at the interstellar locations in the Wing Commander movie. You might be surprised by how much thought went into them… and just where they appear on our familiar map of the Wing Commander universe!

The film begins by explaining its geography. We open on a spectacular Pilgrim star map and travel via pan from the Sol System to Scylla and then to the Vega Sector and Charybdis as gold effects highlight the locations we'll see in the story ahead.

By looking at the entire map created for the introduction we can see that it conforms to the Wing Commander Universe map created for Wing Commander Prophecy! "Vukar Tag" is even visible as the camera pans across the map in the film, quite a distance for an idea from a tie-in novel to

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The Independent Detention Foundation has thanked independent pilots who protected convict recovery efforts in the Redonesses system.
EVE-597 is back under Foundation control and all convicts on board been secured. Local system security also reported that the vast majority of escaped prisoners had been recovered and returned to custody.
A spokesperson for the Independent Detention Foundation confirmed that The Wallglass Investigations Agency had been appointed to establish how prisoners aboard the Riker-class prison ship were able to breach their cells in large numbers.
"Initial investigations have recovered partial telemetry from EVE-597's comms array. The breakout appeared to have been coordinated with support from inside the ship." Wallglass detective Eric Gunnarson said in a press statement to Vox Galactica. "It is too early to confirm whether the megaship's security data had been disclosed

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Brewer Corporation is manufacturing what it calls 'jump satellites' to enable more fleet carriers to target a system with no planetary bodies.
Under existing circumstances, only one fleet carrier can remain stationary in a system of this type, preventing other carriers from targeting and continuing their journey.
"It's especially problematic for explorers in the furthest reaches of the galaxy where star density is at its lowest," remarked Brewer Corporation CEO Madelyn Teague in an interview with Vox Galactica.
"Brewer engineers successfully tested a significant modification to existing beacon amplification. Our prototypes were successful in mimicking the planetary body signal used by fleet carrier jump computers, helping carrier crews safely traverse to a location without a planet or moon present."
Teague's statement concluded with a call to action for independent pilots to deliver certain