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... but they are fun. Since the dawn of time, crummy plastic "ID badges" have been sold at science fiction conventions. They aren't really props, they aren't really well made or well designed or useful for anything... but they're such a mood, such a part of the culture. They're the kind of impulse buy you make when there's a three hour line for a calzone and the bag of Space: Above and Beyond bootleg VHSes you picked up are hurting your arm. Did you need a laminated seaQuest DSV ID that doesn't look like anything from the show? No, but it feels damn good to pick one up anyway.

I'd never seen any for Wing Commander, though, until Chris noticed this eBay listing. Woah! These are the platonic ideal of the concept. They're nothing like the ones in the movie, the information about the characters is wrong in significant ways... and damn I'd be thrilled to find these at a stand. So to be clear, not an

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Mac is back with another lovely piece of Wing Commander art! He posted the image below to BlueSky last week. He has titled it, naturally, "Just the Tip". Stunning! I bet it would even make a great lock screen in spite of it's orientation. It's exciting to see modern, professional composition meet classic Wing Commander ship designs.

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Interest continues to grow among the scientific community following Ram Tah's speculation that the Guardians once cultivated Radicoida unica for their own use.
With many leading exobiologists continuing to argue over whether Radicoida unica is a direct creation of the Guardians, Ram Tah clarified that the plant is almost certainly a natural flora.
Speaking to Leon Banerjee, science correspondent for Vox Galactica, Tah reiterated that whilst the context in the Guardian Archive links the long extinct race to using the plant, there is no evidence it was a creation of genetic engineering.
"There is evidence that the Guardians cultivated the plant for their own purposes and likely cross-pollinated it with other flora millions of years ago to enhance its medicinal effects," he went on to say.
Dr. Roy Casimir, chief researcher at the Holloway Bioscience Institute, echoed Ram Tah's statement when

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... but before you watch, know that it's not an exciting one! We are always on the lookout for USA Network bumpers that include footage from Wing Commander Academy. From just before the show aired in September 1996 until at least the middle of 1997, USA used footage from Wing Commander Academy in a fair number of bumpers for their 'Action Extreme Team' lineup. We started posting them last year and keep watch for new uploads of off air dubs of USA shows from that tmie period. This one, which dates from the week of June 9, 1997, is the latest one we've found... maybe the last time the cadets showed up on TV! It's not super Wing Commander-y--it promotes a USA Kids Club summer vacation event--but it's good to add it to the collection!

If you have a source for USA tapes from that era, we'd love to see it! There are three commercials in particular we would like to rescue from obscurity:

• The original Wing

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Happy summer! It's time for another thrilling edition of our monthly Wing Commander cartoon party! This time around, we're looking at examples of the various television shows that the Wing Commander III team credited for keeping them sane in the game's quotes files… which means it's time to party 1990s style! Last time we looked at thirty years of TV that inspired Wing Commander Armada… but it looks like the WC3 group were younger and more hip! Here's the actual line from the game's hidden credits. We've picked an appropriate episode for each one (that had to have aired before the game shipped).

Mystery Science Theatre 3000; The X-Files; The Tick; Nietzche; Double Dave's Big Fucking Cokes; Not Money ; Not Short Hours; Doom ; X-Com; People On Fire; Two-Fisted John Woo Action; Doom II; Dilbert ; Simpsons; More Doom; Seinfeld; Net Doom; Star Trek (so sue us)

The Tick (s1e07): It's a bit of a surprise to

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The Wing Commander movie club found The Birdcage (1996) to be… absolutely delightful! This week, we voted on a selection of movies from the '90s and once again I'm proud of everyone for forgoing some of the big action movies of our youths to go with a comedy. And that comedy is the Jim Carey classic Dumb and Dumber (1994)! If you don't quote this movie regularly… well, you're just not as old as most of us. You can join us this Friday via Discord to watch along.

The connection to Wing Commander on this one is literal! Dumb and Dumber was front and center in pop culture in 1995… and it was quoted in Privateer 2: The Darkening! One of the generally silly wingmen bios (entirely silly in this case) is for Clevis 'Guts' Nugget and his quote is "Gonna kick your ass, sea bass!"... which comes straight from Dumb and Dumber. We'll see it play out on Friday! In the meantime, here's Guts:

NAME Clevis 'Guts' Nugget