[LordMelvin]

Actually, I wouldn't mind wookies. But why would ALL the rebels be wookies are beyond me. It's not like the empire isn't enslaving everyone else too. Suffice to say, Lucas has had plenty of bad ideas...the prequls can attest to that...

No, there wouldn't be rebels. The Rebel command staff all were on Alderaan, and Leia doesn't know how to contact any other cells, so Han, Luke, Leia, Chewie, Obi-Wan (he didn't die in the early drafts) and the droids fly off to the wookie homeworld, teach the wookies to fly fighters, and go off to destroy the death star.

[Thaeris]

Thank God we got A New Hope... and not the prequil of A New Hope...

Maybe any of the prequils George wrote just never got to the second draft phase?

(On the downside, I smell another retcon coming...)

[TrashMan]

No, there wouldn't be rebels. The Rebel command staff all were on Alderaan, and Leia doesn't know how to contact any other cells, so Han, Luke, Leia, Chewie, Obi-Wan (he didn't die in the early drafts) and the droids fly off to the wookie homeworld, teach the wookies to fly fighters, and go off to destroy the death star.

OH my..... thank God someone beat that stupid idea out of Lucas.

[Titan]

No, there wouldn't be rebels. The Rebel command staff all were on Alderaan, and Leia doesn't know how to contact any other cells, so Han, Luke, Leia, Chewie, Obi-Wan (he didn't die in the early drafts) and the droids fly off to the wookie homeworld, teach the wookies to fly fighters, and go off to destroy the death star.

OH my..... thank God someone beat that stupid idea out of Lucas.

I remember reading some descriptions of the early drafts way back, and they never sounded that bad. My understanding was that they would enlist in help of the wookies to destroy the Death Star because they were, as stated, 'a nobel warrior race'. Then again, in the original drafts Han Solo was going to be a 7 ft tall frog thing instead of Harrison Ford.

[General Battuta]

Journal of the Whills fo lyfe

[Liberator]

* Liberator is confused as to the cute fuzzy in STO.

If you are referring to the caitians they may be fuzzy, but they're also quite vicious when provoked.  Do not call them cute.

[FireSpawn]

* Liberator is confused as to the cute fuzzy in STO.

If you are referring to the caitians they may be fuzzy, but they're also quite vicious when provoked.  Do not call them cute.

They looks like someone took all the 'Kil' out of the Kilrathi.

[General Battuta]

* Liberator is confused as to the cute fuzzy in STO.

If you are referring to the caitians they may be fuzzy, but they're also quite vicious when provoked.  Do not call them cute.

They looks like someone took all the 'Kil' out of the Kilrathi.

Kilrathi look like somebody couldn't figure out how to spell Kzinti :smug:

[FireSpawn]

* Liberator is confused as to the cute fuzzy in STO.

If you are referring to the caitians they may be fuzzy, but they're also quite vicious when provoked.  Do not call them cute.

They looks like someone took all the 'Kil' out of the Kilrathi.

Kilrathi look like somebody couldn't figure out how to spell Kzinti :smug:

Wait...Was it me, or Wing Commander that just got schooled right there? 

[Commander Zane]

Wait...Was it me, or Wing Commander that just got schooled right there? 

The Kzinti predate the Kilrathi by about 20 years.

[Liberator]

At least.

However, the Caitians are what you get when you drop the Kzinti into a world where the Preservers saw to it that 90ish percent of the sentient life in the galaxy is humanoid.

[General Battuta]

I love Wing Commander though, don't get me wrong!

[LHN91]

I love Wing Commander though, don't get me wrong!

But Larry Niven is pretty damned excellent.

[MarkN]

At least.

However, the Caitians are what you get when you drop the Kzinti into a world where the Preservers saw to it that 90ish percent of the sentient life in the galaxy is humanoid.

However, Thanks to Larry Niven being on the writing team for the animated series, the Kzinti are technically a canon Star Trek race
Of coure then there are doubts about the canon-ness of the animated series.

[NGTM-1R]

Of coure then there are doubts about the canon-ness of the animated series.

Only because they don't want to admit they hired a colorist for it who was colorblind.

[Ravenholme]

* Liberator is confused as to the cute fuzzy in STO.

If you are referring to the caitians they may be fuzzy, but they're also quite vicious when provoked.  Do not call them cute.

They looks like someone took all the 'Kil' out of the Kilrathi.

Kilrathi look like somebody couldn't figure out how to spell Kzinti :smug:

Yusss, I enjoy WC, but that's so true.

[Liberator]

Of coure then there are doubts about the canon-ness of the animated series.

Only because they don't want to admit they hired a colorist for it who was colorblind Filmation.

Nothing against Hal Sutherland, but even when I was a kid, I considered Filmation's show to be poor quality and lazy.  It was not a good fit for Star Trek.  That said, the writing was generally pretty good, although the lack of guest VAs led to James Doohan working a bit too far out of his vocal range at times.