When you think of the Star Wars prequels and conflict, you probably think of one of the most important interstellar campaigns of the entire saga, the Clone Wars. But in Star Wars‘ old expanded universe, only fleetingly touched upon in the rebooted continuity, a conflict preceded both the Clone Wars and the broader prequel trilogy itself that […]
How Do You Run a Klingon Empire?
Star Trek has spent almost 60 years delivering the ins and outs of Starfleet and the Federation, detailing the history of its greatest triumphs and greatest crises. But one of its most enduring factions has had its structure shrouded in mystery and myth for almost that entire period too… and no, it’s not the Romulans. […]
What We Know About the Biggest Unseen War of ‘Star Trek’
For as much as it presents itself as a vision of a utopian, idealistic society, much of Star Trek remains defined by its relation to conflict. There’s the lingering question over Starfleet’s values as a military organization or a scientific exploratory force, or defining conflicts like those against the Klingons, the Borg, and the Dominion that […]
The Comic Book Guide to the ‘Wolverine’ Game
Last night Sony finally re-revealed Insomniac’s highly anticipated next step in the Marvel gaming universe: trading the high-flying webslinging of their Spider-Man games for a gore-soaked soiree into the realm of Marvel’s mutants for Wolverine. While we learned that this is certainly going to be a much more gory take on the studio’s trademark action, we […]
A Brief History of Swole Hutts
When the first trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu dropped yesterday, one of its many creature-packed visuals seemingly confirmed one of the most absurd pieces of casting surrounding the movie: that The Bear star Jeremy Allen White would be entering the Star Wars galaxy as a grown-up Rotta the Hutt, last seen as a tiny baby Huttlet in the 2008 […]
How Could Frodo Be in ‘The Hunt for Gollum’?
This weekend, Ian McKellen had a bit of Hobbiton-disturber-of-the-peace energy about himself when he revealed at a fantasy convention in London that Frodo Baggins would appear in Andy Serkis’ upcoming Lord of the Rings prequel movie, The Hunt for Gollum. Frodo is far from the only familiar face who has been teased as making a potential appearance […]
The Original History Behind the Mandalorians’ Wars Against the Jedi
The world of Mandalore has a long and complicated history in Star Wars, and perhaps even more complicated than the story of its peoples’ wars among themselves are their wars united against a common foe: the Galactic Republic, and the Jedi Order that served it. But outside of allusions and artwork, the story of what defined […]
The Laws That Changed the Jedi and Republic Forever
“For a over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic,” Obi-Wan Kenobi tells Luke Skywalker in A New Hope. In the decades of Star Wars storytelling since, countless tales have fleshed out that connection between the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order’s service of it, from its […]
What It Took to Build the Death Star
The ultimate manifestation of the Empire’s overwhelming belief in strength through fear, the Death Star is everything insidious and evil about the Imperial engine in Star Wars—as well as its inevitable downfall. But while the story of stopping the Death Star is well trod at this point, the story of just how it was built in […]
The History of Omega, the Beginning and the End of the Time Lords
If we thought all Doctor Who was going to build its upcoming finale around was the return of one classic villain from its history in the Rani, “Wish World” told us to think again in its final moments, as it invoked the name of an all-time terror in the history of the Time Lords: the dread […]