Connecting the Dots Back to Wing Commander

Today I'm going to pop around on a thread that starts with author Diane Duane. She's a very well known sci-fi author who's written lots of Star Trek novels, various video game books as well as her own series. Of particular interest to WC fans: she also wrote the screenplay to the cinematic story of Privateer 2! And just yesterday, she had this to say on the topic:

I was a busy girl on this one. It remains the single longest screenplay (at 300+ pages) I've ever done. And had the BEST cast. Brian Blessed, Clive Owen, David Warner, so many more... :)

This is wonderful! My brain has stopped identifying new Star Trek ship classes as well as it used to and I feel like I suddenly understand the fleet again. It’s also neat how similar it is to this 1998 chart developed for the Wing Commander art team to reference pre-production!

“That’s not what the Kilrathi warships look like!” - true, they totally dropped the rigging/age of sale look for them. Luckily they redid the chart afterwards for commercial release and it’s in the Confederation Handbook!