Recent content by 6and7eighths

I'm sorry you seem to think that my lack of affection for the film brings with it some sort of contempt for what it added to the series. As long as we're airing likes and dislikes, I didn't much like Wing Commander III, either, although I am actually quite fond of Academy. If there's one thing...

Says specifically, now? Let's delve a little deeper. I'd be reluctant to say that sharing a graduating year is proof positive that the two characters knew each other during their academy years until such time as there was actual backstory developed about it. Sure, it's easy to look back with...

I really don't understand why we can't all just agree that this is an instance of retroactive continuity, rather than pretending that, "hey, playername. I’m Maniac. Glad to meetcha," means anything other than the obvious. There certainly wasn't an overarching vision for Wing Commander as a...

That's not entirely accurate; the term dreadnought does, in fact, have a textbook definition, although it's archaic to the point of being moot with advances in modern ordnance and shipbuilding technology. A dreadnought is specifically any battleship armed with six or more guns having calibers...

The most obvious answer would be that there was very little continuity of effort. The teams responsible changed dramatically between Wing Commander II and III, much moreso than between Wing Commander and Wing Commander II. Story-wise, we're expected to believe that most of the ships in Wing...

Which, naturally, makes it and any further discussion of it completely passe for the off-topic zone. It seems a curious state of affairs, although not altogether unheard of. While I'm sure there are reasons for it, I've never really been able to wrap my mind around how studios handle their...

You're right, I did think you were being sarcastic in your first post. My apologies. Wing Commander is full of contradictions, though, as we're regularly told that an apple can be an orange and a Gladius can be a Raptor. ;) My only point was that it's consistant with what little we do know...

Far be it from me to suggest that concept art upon which final in-game content is based should have any bearing at all. Didn't we already have this discussion about Perry's hangar bay just a few weeks ago? Whether it's a Steltek or a miscelaneous alien black marketeer, it was obviously...

We know that space combat was primarily ship to ship prior to the Kilrathi War, thanks in large part to the early war perspective given to us by Action Stations. It's disingenuous to suggest that the Scimitar was developed immediately following the Pilgrim War, not so much because we know...

Gogo Privateer Archive.

I'm not certain if this has ever come up in discussion of the Scimitar's age before, but it does seem to set a historical precedent for a craft with an operation lifespan in excess of a hundred years. So, it's really unnecessary to come up with reasons why the Scimitar can't be as old as it is...

I'm pretty sure he was being cute because I claimed that Wing Commander was a technobabble-free zone, whereas it probably would've been more accurate to say that Captain Eisen never told anybody to reverse the polarity on the deflector array's phase inducer.

Funny, I don't recall any of the games ever going into such detail about parallel tonality or multidimensions.

No, not really. Wing Commander is largely free of ridiculous technobabble.

If you want to get metaphysical about it, I'm pretty certain that people who have been revived from a naturally occurring hypothermic state haven't come back as soulless abominations, forsaken in the eyes of God. Let's try to be clear about this, we're talking about suspended animation, not...