This is so upfront that I’d watch it.

+1 to Tie Defender nostalgia. Thing was a dream to fly.

The defender needed 3 solar panels to power its expanded weaponry, shields, and tractor beam tech. The weapons systems were mounted on the solar panels to provide a wider field of fire so that smaller, faster craft like the A-Wing would be easier to hit. The top panel housed 2 ion cannons, while the lower panels…

The Defender and the Phantom are the only two non-movie TIEs I really like.

Put me down as a TIE Defender fanboy. It was a great payoff for the TIE Fighter computer game. After slogging through the ranks of flying the unshielded standard TIEs, then working your way up to the Interceptor, Bomber and Advanced, the TIE-D just felt like cheating. It had the advantages of all the previous ships…

Tie Defender is pure sex! Elegant, powerful, thematic. It looks good, it looks like a Tie Fighter, it performs above and beyond.

The Defender is freaking awesome, I’m 100% with you there. It’s got a look that still fits the TIE aesthetic but is unique enough to set it apart, unlike things like the Missile Boat from Tie Fighter, or the others which were all just variations of “Add pointy things onto the end of the panels.”

This has always been my favorite TIE.

But.. but... I like the TIE Defender. It’s the only non-Film version of a TIE fighter I actually am fond of. I wish I could have snagged the Action Fleet version of that sucker.

Yeah, I wrote basically the same comment before I read yours.

Well, couldn’t they just transport a bunch of probes to the star system they want to explore (far enough away from any celestial bodies to make accuracy less important), map the planets in whatever level of detail is required, then transport away-teams to the newly mapped planets?

I think they - or the fans and the writers on another TV show fifteen years later - explained that better: Excelsior was going to test it, it didn’t work very well, they abandoned it and later (like 100 years later) discovered that to make it work you need externally-set-up conduits through subspace, like the Borg did.

Sounds like they did the same ‘hand wave’ with the ‘trans-warp transporters’ as they did with the whole idea of ‘trans-warp drive’ from STIII.

I gather Lin and Pegg got together and talked about how to deal with it, maybe by saying it was incredibly dangerous and people had died, and then they hit on the idea of pretending it never happened because it was so essentially lame. They seem to have gone with the latter.

Why do they even have a five year mission when they invented trans-warp transporters in the last movie? They don’t need space ships anymore.

You mean Truckasaurus is real? When will the Simpsons stop predicting the future?

I think it’s supposed to be a page turning, but really it just looks bland as fuck

I hated it at first, but it grew on me over the years.
That said, the new one isn’t an upgrade for me. My favourite is the late 90's one. It may be nostalgia.

Yay! Marvel steals another Johnny Storm and (hopefully) puts him in a better comic book movie. Not unexpected, given Coogler helming but still welcome news.