I'm bored, and this seemed like a good idea, so...
I was watching the Academy cartoon tonight, and it got my geek-brain working. There's a lot of talk about how the movie and the cartoon contradict WC1. But as some of the more informed (LOAF and the like) have pointed out, this is not necessarily true. What I'm wondering, however, and this is probably pretty simple to answer, is where exactly do the movie, cartoon, novels, etc. fit in with WC1. Specifically, I mean. When do, for example, the cartoon episodes occur in relation to the missions in WC1, and where does the movie and Pilgrim Stars fit in? If one has dates to solidify a response, that'd be neat.
Now some things that most likely aren't proveable, but fun to speculate about, at any rate.
Tolwyn. As I understand, the majority of the Academy episodes take place after the movie. Tolwyn goes from commanding the Concorida supercruiser to commanding the Tiger's Claw fairly quickly. I wonder what happens to the Concordia. Is it destroyed? So, as I see it, Tolwyn goes from commanding the Concordia to commanding the Tiger's Claw to serving on Sol Station between 2654-2655. And a neat reference in the Heart of the Tiger novel, something about Tolwyn usurping command of the Claw from Captain Thorn (I don't have the book with me at the moment, it's back home). We can assume this is during the time Tolwyn is on the Claw during Academy. So... Sansky dies, replaced by Gerald. Pilgrim Truth ends, and Gerald is replaced by Thorn. Soon after, Tolwyn comes aboard by the time of "The Last One Left" (Academy, episode 2), and "usurps" command from Thorn. Tolwyn eventually leaves, and Thorn gets command back. Okay.
I just watched "The Invisible Enemy." How can Tolwyn not believe Blair in WC2 about the Stealth fighters, when he admits at the end of this episode he was "wrong about Stealth fighters," or something to that effect? Did he forget in a year's time, or is he just that stubborn? True, the Strakha seen in this episode is quite different than the Strakha that destroyed the Claw at K'tithrak Mang (more akin to a modern-day stealth fighter than a complete Shroud, as we see later), so this might lead to an explanation. Tolwyn (and Confed) knows about the Skipper (as seen in the movie), so doesn't disbelieve in cloaking technology, but he does say in "The Invisible Enemy" that the Kilrathi are years away from a cloak-capable fighter, cloak in the same sense that the Skipper cloaks, complete sensor and visual invisibility. Tolwyn knows Blair and Maniac were able to detect and destroy the non-Shrouding Strakha, so perhaps doesn't buy the idea that Blair couldn't do so again at K'tithrak Mang.
Hmmm... this probably doesn't make much sense, but I've been up a long time. Well, time for Jimmy Kimmel Live...
I was watching the Academy cartoon tonight, and it got my geek-brain working. There's a lot of talk about how the movie and the cartoon contradict WC1. But as some of the more informed (LOAF and the like) have pointed out, this is not necessarily true. What I'm wondering, however, and this is probably pretty simple to answer, is where exactly do the movie, cartoon, novels, etc. fit in with WC1. Specifically, I mean. When do, for example, the cartoon episodes occur in relation to the missions in WC1, and where does the movie and Pilgrim Stars fit in? If one has dates to solidify a response, that'd be neat.
Now some things that most likely aren't proveable, but fun to speculate about, at any rate.
Tolwyn. As I understand, the majority of the Academy episodes take place after the movie. Tolwyn goes from commanding the Concorida supercruiser to commanding the Tiger's Claw fairly quickly. I wonder what happens to the Concordia. Is it destroyed? So, as I see it, Tolwyn goes from commanding the Concordia to commanding the Tiger's Claw to serving on Sol Station between 2654-2655. And a neat reference in the Heart of the Tiger novel, something about Tolwyn usurping command of the Claw from Captain Thorn (I don't have the book with me at the moment, it's back home). We can assume this is during the time Tolwyn is on the Claw during Academy. So... Sansky dies, replaced by Gerald. Pilgrim Truth ends, and Gerald is replaced by Thorn. Soon after, Tolwyn comes aboard by the time of "The Last One Left" (Academy, episode 2), and "usurps" command from Thorn. Tolwyn eventually leaves, and Thorn gets command back. Okay.
I just watched "The Invisible Enemy." How can Tolwyn not believe Blair in WC2 about the Stealth fighters, when he admits at the end of this episode he was "wrong about Stealth fighters," or something to that effect? Did he forget in a year's time, or is he just that stubborn? True, the Strakha seen in this episode is quite different than the Strakha that destroyed the Claw at K'tithrak Mang (more akin to a modern-day stealth fighter than a complete Shroud, as we see later), so this might lead to an explanation. Tolwyn (and Confed) knows about the Skipper (as seen in the movie), so doesn't disbelieve in cloaking technology, but he does say in "The Invisible Enemy" that the Kilrathi are years away from a cloak-capable fighter, cloak in the same sense that the Skipper cloaks, complete sensor and visual invisibility. Tolwyn knows Blair and Maniac were able to detect and destroy the non-Shrouding Strakha, so perhaps doesn't buy the idea that Blair couldn't do so again at K'tithrak Mang.
Hmmm... this probably doesn't make much sense, but I've been up a long time. Well, time for Jimmy Kimmel Live...