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Yes. When it manages to reach escape velocity, that's usually considered sufficient. Then they start worrying about re-entry capabilities :).

Cool stuff. It's such a weird configuration, once you pause to think about it. Why two cockpits, side by side, instead of one? I suppose it could be the Kilrathi favouring redundancy designs. And then, why shove the cannons out to the wingtips, when you could have them both in the middle between...

Interesting. I admit, I was kinda going by my own feelings on this one - I was very invested in the original show, but when the revival happened, I found myself totally disinterested. Now that you mentioned this, I had a look at the audience ratings, and it seems the first season indeed had very...

This is true, but - it does raise an interesting question about the Righteous Fire expansion. The WC1/2 expansions released up until that point - and heck, even Academy could be counted as a sort of standalone expansion - typically included a new player ship. I think the only exception was SM1...

Prophecy just turned 21, you say? That is a remarkable span of time, hard to believe. But then again, even the final episode of Standoff is going to be ten years old this year!. And Unknown Enemy will turn 18 this year or the next (wow, I no longer remember what year we released - was it the end...

I agree that it's ultimately easier to understand why particular shows end up forgotten rather than why other shows continue. Definitely, basing your show around a big mystery goes a long way to ensuring the show will be abandoned by the fans. We saw how basically no one cared about the X-Files...

The other thing worth keeping in mind is that being a privateer in the traditional sense would be an entirely different challenge than what the player actually faced in the game. Privateers traditionally were not paid at all, instead their reward was the loot they captured. Well, we do sometimes...

I think you have to infer from what you see in the game. A privateer is simply someone who owns their own spaceship, operates independently, possibly but not necessarily engaging in small-time trade, and at least occasionally accepts official bounty missions. In Privateer, time and again you...

Wait, there were Academy-related toys? Did that actually happen, or was it a plan that never reached fruition?

Yes, that's true as well. Once you look closely, you can see how the different elements were re-imagined. I actually rather like the final outcome, and a part of me wishes that the script hadn't identified it as a Ferret, but as some new ship not seen elsewhere. This particular configuration...

Wow. I remember a lot of speculation about it being a Rapier, but a Ferret - never would have thought of it! A very different interpretation, that's for sure.

I wonder if there might have been some sort of copyright issue. They might have, for one reason or another, been unable to get the appropriate permissions to reproduce the cover art, and ended up using a modified image to avoid any difficulties. Either that, or they just really liked doing...

Yeah, I get the crew bonding thing... I just don't think it works at all as advertised. For one thing, it's a quick hack to a problem that doesn't exist - no one ever finds it strange that crews bond quickly under the pressures of combat. So, you get to fix a problem that doesn't exist, by...

Yep, I do recall it in WCA. What struck me here was that unlike WCA - and unlike the historical precedents - here there was no indication of conflict or disagreement. But, I suppose it may have been meant to signal that his primary motivation remains his girlfriend rather than medals or...

Well, one of the problems the film faced was that Chris Roberts' vision was just plain wrong, and dearly needed to be compromised - and it's actually rather nice to see him own up to that here. He mentions in particular departing too far from the look and feel of the series, and how this was to...

Very interesting, that chapter. It's hard to say who was right, when both sides blame one another, but what is clear is that there wasn't a good working relationship between the producer and director, and that is never good. Todd Moyer's comment about fans is very revealing, though, and...

I've never watched Babylon 5, and I don't think I will try in the predictable future, as five seasons of TV at the moment are just too much of a time investment, when there are so many other movies I'm desperately trying to find time for. I did, however, recently watch another show from the...

I agree. I would really like to see the original WC3 footage, to see how well (or badly) the WC3 design looked at higher resolutions.

Oh, wow. That is remarkably cool. Even more than the medals themselves, I'm impressed by the full set of ribbons. Fantastic.

Mmm. I have to say, especially with something like the Tigershark, I find myself thinking that by today's standards, any kind of opaque cockpit glass is problematic. A cockpit interior with a pilot would do wonders...