Reply To: Remember Pearl Harbor

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I never played any Wing Commander, @zorg .  Always kind of regretted it.  I think the cat-aliens are a little silly (let’s be real, I think all aliens are a little silly).  But the movie was light, cheesy fun (except I didn’t like the sidekick character, although I liked his girlfriend).  And some of the movies people have made from movie game sequels on YouTube are fun guilty pleasures (always happy to see Mark Hamil on screen in anything but The Last Jedi).

Regarding Pearl Harbor analogs in sci fi, another candidate is the original BSG.  Not a perfect match (there’s no Baltar “insider betrayal” angle at Pearl Harbor – please ignore any conspiracy nonsense that uninformed “theorists” will try to tell you about FDR) but it is an enemy sneak attack that destroys the bulk of the navy while in the midst of peace negotiations.  So you can kind of see where they were going without trying to be too on the nose.  Remember that came out in 1978 and some of the executive higher-ups were around when Pearl Harbor happened.