1. Page 204 of the movie adaption, Blair says he never met the admiral (which would be untrue if the universes were the same).
I suppose it depends how you define met.
Paladin is discussing interacting with (personally returning the ring to) Tolwyn. At this point in the timeline, Blair has been in a lineup of people spoken to by Tolwyn twice at that point (he didn't speak to Tolwyn either time, and Tolwyn didn't identify Blair personally either). Did they 'meet'?
I'd be hard pressed to say that I'd *met* professors whose classes I've attended for entire semester. We've all gone and heard famous people talk -- but we'd be hard pressed to claim we'd *met* them.
(Similarly, the claim is pretty nebulous anyway, since Blair and Tolwyn already had a conversation at the start of the movie... which Paladin was around for... so asking whether he'd ever *met* the Admiral must mean something more intimate than even this.)
Of course, on a greater scale, so what? If you can prove that there is an irreconcilable continuity error... what happens? How does that shatter everything apart?
Here's something that, while not impossible to fix, is a lot worse in my mind than any weirdness of movie phrasing: the Tiger's Claw has a different number of engines during spaceflight than it does in the end-of-game cutscenes in WC1. So, what was the result of me pointing that out? Did the original Wing Commander collapse in on itself and stop existing in your mind? Does this conclusively prove that WC1 contains *two* Wing Commander universes, the spaceflight universe and the cutscene universe?
2. Knight was the guy flying the broadsword that blew up next to Paladin. Of course, we don't know if he ejected, but using Deverux's (sp?) pod as a reference, one would think that both him and Chen would be long dead if they didn't get picked up immediately.
Devereaux is the most common spelling.
There's a good theory about Chen out there - it's completely 'non canon', but it fits into a lot of established information about how the Wing Commander universe works. I'm sure you can find it in the forum archives.
Yes, I know. I even saw his name in the Pilgrim Stars "thanks". I was dutifully ignoring his reverse pokes at my pokes. I still think I could get it past an editor. I just need to see if Roberts doesn't mind being bothered...
That actually wasn't my job for the movie novels... I was just happy to provide Mr. Telep with some information he wanted (and was actually credited, whereas I did it formally for some of the Baen stuff and got nothing).
Chris Roberts is a great guy and he's happy to talk to fans... but I don't think he'd have much say in a future Wing Commander release.