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That's good advice! It's even included with some of the recent Blu-ray versions. I advise seeing the theatrical first and then trying it, you'll get the most out of it that way.

The Wing Commander movie club greatly enjoyed our trip back to 1970 with Apollo 13; it's a movie that comes together so perfectly it feels preordained rather than directed. This week we'll be traveling further into the future for another outer space adventure… but one that's anything but neutral...

There's always next time! Maybe for the best these days, though; I feel like they lean in to their side of the culture war a little too hard right now.

Last month we discovered some fascinating trade ads for some of Baen's Wing Commander novels. Next I thought I'd take a look at how Baen advertised the Wing Commander novels in their own books and I found a couple of fun examples that were repeated in dozens of Baen paperbacks in the early 90s...

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 Exorcist and you can find details on why we're watching it in the announcement post here...

Here's a neat memory of Wing Commander III from a celebrity! Elias Toufexis recently tweeted that he remembers playing Wing Commander III as a kid and hoped to act in a game someday… and now he's been in almost one hundred of them! I played the hell out of the Wing Commander series when I was...

Here's a story we don't quite know what to do with: we've discovered an interesting "rumor" published in the August 1992 issue of Computer Gaming World. The magazine claims that Dark Horse comics was working on a Wing Commander comic book that would've been written by James Hudnall. Origin...

LeHah has provided us a kingly gift this year: a Cameo video from Hugh Quarshie, who played Lt. Cmdr. Obutu in the Wing Commander movie! He was nice enough to spend a few minutes talking about a job he probably didn't want to remember (I mean, he was in Star Wars that same year!). --...

We have some sad news to pass along today: the exOrigin Facebook group reports that veteran Wing Commander artist Craig Halverson has passed away. If Mr. Halverson's name sounds familiar it's because his excellent work graced over a dozen Origin games. We've said before but the 'Origin mystique'...

Paul Steed would be proud!

You may have seen Super Wing Commander's unusual introduction before... but have you seen the various midgames? They're pretty fascinating! The original game had a series of midgames that would play after every other system to give you the state of the war (based on how you played): Kilrathi...

Ahhhh so cool to see the Wing Commander art! I love the ships they've drawn for them.

Find a Dralthi, pick it up -- all the day you'll have good luck. Don't you love coming across new takes on Wing Commander ships where you don't expect them? Case in point: David Müller posted this neat interpretation of Wing Commander III's Dralthi IV medium fighter that just feels so much like...

The Wing Commander movie club made it through Seven Samurai! Wing Commander never had a 'team up' style story like Seven Samurai... but it ALMOST did! The sequel to Wing Commander Secret Ops was intended to involve a team of seven (six plus the player) elite mercenaries who operate outside the...

Greetings WingNuts, Last week, we watched the 1993 action classic Demolition Man. The only major connection to Wing Commander was that Chris Roberts used a track from the movie when temp tracking Wing Commander. Here's the scene in question as it appears in the movie… the music is pretty hidden...

The short answer is we can figure it out! The Wing Commander Prophecy guide's bio for Lance Casey gives us a pretty clear timeline. It that Iceman met his mother during short leave "shortly after the Firekka engagement." She finds out she's pregnant and Casey takes a one week leave "a few...

In their original print form, the original seven Baen Wing Commander novels each open with an excerpt in their front matter. It's typically an action scene from later in the book intended to sell the book to readers not familiar with the franchise. And each one of these previews had a unique...

PETSCII is a character set that was introduced for the Commodore PET in 1977 and which was used for Commodore's other PCs prior to the Amiga. And where there's a character set there are users turned artists who can do incredible things with it! In 2025, Commodore fans still compete to push the...

Howdy folks! Bob found a good candidate for movie club (Zulu, quoted in Action Stations) in another thread so I thought I'd start an official place to make suggestions. We're looking for movies that fit into one of these categories: - movies that inspired Wing Commander in some way; typically...

Good call, consider it done. We should have a thread for finding these specifically.