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In the shot where Krennic’s shuttle leaves the Death Star for his meeting with Vader, you can a Star Destroyer in a docking bay in the equatorial trench. It’s a big ol’ sucker. One of the old tech manuals said that Tarkin felt there was no reason to intercept the two squadrons of Rebel fighters...

As a watcher primarily of the revival, I only know the Rani by reputation, but I’m not terribly enthusiastic about her. Maybe if the Master hadn’t re-destroyed Gallifrey, some rando dick Time Lord popping up would feel like less of a cheap move. The Doctor and the Master being the last two Time...

People were being sent to different planets after Cassian was arrested. I'm guessing they were evaluated somehow and sent to whatever kind of forced labor best fit their physique, skills, or background.

Looks like Fabio Passaro’s CG recreation of the Voyager concept study model he did for Eaglemoss. https://www.meshweaver.com/eaglemoss--trek-little-ships-4.html

There is no year zero in calendars, generally. Han Solo was hired by Luke and Obi Wan in BBY 1, and the throne room ceremony a few days later was in ABY 1. Wookiepedia disagrees with my assessment, but the show apparently doesn’t. We really should stick to the calendars when the Battle of Yavin...

That's what we're talking about, shot in the back versus falling with the bridge after decloaking the missile for Picard, not the last words, exact moment of passing.

I think it helps that Saw wasn’t always as paranoid as he was in R1. The whole plot is set in motion because Saw and Galen were true friends, Saw helped Galen and his family escape Coruscant and go into hiding, and Saw saved Jyn with no practical benefit, so when Galen made his move, he sent his...

That goes all the way back to WEG assuming the Academy he mentions has to be the Imperial Academy, and not some kind of civilian school.

There have been a few other suggestions that the Empire was interested in having more than one Death Star at a time. The early RotJ concepts with two of them under construction in orbit of the Imperial capital that wasn’t yet Coruscant, for instance. I remember the ANH choose-your-own adventure...

Definitely. Something I realized is that the whole thing is, if not in vain, definitely of questionable value. Lonni risks his life and his family, and Luthen died after making himself a pariah chasing his white whale, for nothing that was actionable. It’s context, it’s exciting to finally know...

What’s the thing people always used to sarcastically quote from him? “We are all very pleased.”

I was even younger when I though Scotty said “any man with manufactured feet” instead of “who could manage such a feat” in TMP.

IIRC, the first book opens with the urban legend that if you point your telescope at the right spot, you can still see Epstein’s ship’s engine burning a hundred-odd years later.

The fuel efficiency is what allows the speed. It’s nearly 100% efficient, so you can run it continuously while carrying a relatively small amount of fuel mass. That’s how Solomon Epstein was killed by it. He was hot-rodding his ship, and one of the modifications worked much better than he...

It's from a viral Tumblr post. It's a popular character from the Star Wars expanded universe (basically anything that isn't a movie or live-action show) who's obscure to the more casual fandom, and who is going to be the focus of a live-action Star Wars production.

Please, video game stuff. You get much stronger parasocial connections with first-person characters you inhabit.

I'm having a chat somewhere else where people are lauding Andor for being disconnected from fan-service and canon-fetishism and Glup Shittos, and I'm this close to pointing out Saw Gurrera (cartoon character) and Mon Mothma (prequel-movie deleted scene) are both Glup Shittos.

That’s a little complicated. He’s done pro work for Trek, and he made the enhanced CG shots for the DS9 documentary, and at least some of those shots were likewise done many years before the doc was a twinkle in anyone’s eye. They didn’t just download them off of YouTube and cut them in.

When did Kenneth Biller turn into Ron Moore? And speaking of RDM, which BSG dog-tag was he wearing as a necklace? B. somebody, which I guess makes it Hotdog, one of the dead guys from "Scar," a custom one (maybe "B. S. G."?). I tried googling it and found a couple more pictures, but nothing...

The setting’s high-efficiency fusion drives make orbital mechanics pretty much obsolete. Even so, the Sun is one of the harder places to get to (because everything else is spinning around it, so you have to fight that centrifugal force to actually hit it), but they could probably manage it.