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The Wing Commander movie club found that From Russia with Love held our attention! It's interesting seeing Bond that feels so much slower and less like a vehicle for getting from action set piece to action set piece… but at the same time, you can see the modern formula for a James Bond movie starting to form this early.

Here's our very simple Wing Commander connection, a Privateer 2 wingman who is mirroring Bond's raised gun pose! That pose, which would be repeated endlessly over the years, was first captured in the PR photography session for this movie. The unusual length of the gun isn't a silencer, it's actually an airgun that had to be used when Bond's signature Walter PPK was unavailable for the shoot.

Bob also noticed that two ships in Privateer 2's registry have Bond's famous "license to kill.": H643 345D and X465 435E. Bond introduced the term in his first novel, Casino Royale, and it would

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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 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and you can find details on why we're watching it in the announcement post here. The movie will start at 7 PM PST/10 PM EST but feel free to drop by and hang any time!

And don't forget our twelfth Wing Commander Cartoon party is early tomorrow!

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There's some fun news about the upcoming fourth season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds today. Trek Central reports that Wing Commander veteran Saffron Burrows will play a character named Cassel. Burrows played Angel in the Wing Commander movie, delighting all. We'll let you know when her episode airs!

That got me thinking: what other actors have appeared in both Wing Commander and Star Trek? Here's the list of the ones we came up with! First up, the easy one: everyone knows that Malcolm McDowell played Admiral Tolwyn in Wing Commanders III, IV and Academy and that he played Captain Kirk's killer, Dr. Soran, in Star Trek: Generations.

The 'other' Admiral Tolwyn was a Star Trek regular, too. David Warner played Rhinehart in Privateer 2 and Admiral Tolwyn in the 1999 Wing Commander movie. In Star Trek, he was kidnapped Federation ambassador St. John Talbot in Star Trek V, the doomed Klingon Chancellor

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Colonia is hosting a tenth anniversary celebration of its founding, beginning with a supply initiative located at where its historic story began.
A fleet of cargo megaships provided by Brewer Corporation has arrived at Facece to support a massive logistics operation to transport commodities and rare goods from across the core system to Colonia.
"Facece is the system where my story began," remarked Jaques in an interview with Vox Galactica. "What better way to start the celebrations than to launch them from the very same system!"
Colonia Council member Magen Wolf lauded the campaign, adding:
"This huge effort will allow us to create a showcase for Colonia and its history and boost the economies of Colonia and surrounding systems with the potential to establish a megamarket."
Councillor Giselle Kingspear noted that "it's worth mentioning that we have eight Engineers established throughout the

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Here's a weird one we came across on Reddit: a user named eightiesjapan has AI upscaled 5k and 8k versions of one of the wallpapers included with the GOG version of Wing Commander IV!

Refreshed one of the wallpaper that is given as an extra when you buy WCIV on GOG. Theirs is 1920x highest res, mine is 5k (light 2.5mb) and 8k hi-res (34mb) and clean without logo & writing.

Upscaled using topaz + lightroom with custom kodak presets. Gave it a specific (i hope) 90s look with film grain.

• 5k version (5 megs)
• 8k version (35 megs)

Here's the original version, for posterity:

• 1280x1024 version
• 1600x1200 version
• 1920x1080 version
• 1920x1200 version

The GOG wallpaper is based on the game's key art painted by massively talented Origin artist Sam Yeates.

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Destro, the genius behind Wingloader, has made the first public release of RegFaker, a registry patch for Wing Commander Prophecy and Secret Ops. Destro says:

RegFaker - A Registry Patch for Wing Commander Prophecy & Secret Ops
Current Version: v0.1

Hey, I figured I'd share this here to see what the reception is.

I've created a RegFaker.dll that hooks ADVAPI32.dll that stores the functions that the games use to access registry items for the games. Upon first launch it will dump the registry items to a RegFaker.ini. This gives the user the ability to add custom codes such as {Location} that returns current working directory, this will essentially make Wing Commander Prophecy and Secret Ops portable applications so that the games folder can be renamed and moved around on the drive without breaking the installation.

I did this specifically for Proton and Linux compatibility with Wing Loader and for my own