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In 1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress. In 1972 she launched a campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, breaking another political barrier.
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This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
| Wing Commander Academy | |
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| Genre | Science fiction |
| Based on | Wing Commander by Chris Roberts |
| Developed by | Michael Edens Mark Edens |
| Directed by | Larry Latham |
| Voices of | Mark Hamill Tom Wilson Malcolm McDowell Dana Delany |
| Composer | Alexander van Bubenheim |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Larry Latham |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production companies | Universal Cartoon Studios USA Studios |
| Original release | |
| Network | USA Network |
| Release | September 21 – December 21, 1996 |
Wing Commander Academy is a 1996 American animated television series produced by Universal Cartoon Studios, along with a team led by Larry Latham.[1] The show was based on the Wing Commander franchise and loosely served as a prequel to Wing Commander. The show's aired from September 21[2][3] to December 21, 1996, on the USA Network's "USA Action Extreme Team" block.[4]
The series featured many spacecraft introduced in the Wing Commander video games. The Scimitar and Broadsword were the primary fighters and bombers flown by the main characters, with the Dralthi and Grikath fulfilling those roles for the Kilrathi. As in Wing Commander I, the TCS Tiger's Claw was a Bengal class strike carrier. Individual episodes also featured cameo appearances from ships introduced in later games such as Wing Commander III's Arrow, Hellcat and Longbow and Wing Commander IV's Avenger. None of these ships are mentioned by name. A number of new capital ships were introduced by the series including the Achilles class destroyer and the Agan Ra Sivar class dreadnaught.
| No. | Title | Written by | Original release date | |
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| 1 | "Red and Blue" | Mark Edens and Michael Edens | September 21, 1996 | |
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Blair and Maniac are assigned to the Tiger's Claw for training. | ||||
| 2 | "The Last One Left" | Mark Edens (story) Michael Edens (teleplay) | September 28, 1996 | |
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Maverick and Maniac are captured by Daimon Karnes, a missing legendary space fighter pilot who became disillusioned with the war and turned to piracy. | ||||
| 3 | "The Most Delicate Instrument" | Mark Edens (story) Shari Goodhartz (teleplay) | October 5, 1996 | |
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Mentally unbalanced from stellar phenomena, four cadets begin to exhibit erratic behavior. | ||||
| 4 | "Word of Honor" | Mark Edens (story) Richard Mueller (teleplay) | October 12, 1996 | |
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Blair and Grunt crashland on an alien world, but they're not alone... | ||||
| 5 | "Lords of the Sky" | Mark Edens (story) Matthew Edens (teleplay) | October 19, 1996 | |
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Blair and Maniac land on an alien world where the local savages worship the dastardly "Lords of the Sky". | ||||
| 6 | "Chain of Command" | Mark Edens (story) Brooks Wachtel (teleplay) | November 2, 1996 | |
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Tolwyn meets an old "friend", who just happens to outrank him now. | ||||
| 7 | "Expendable" | Mark Edens (story) Ted Pedersen and Francis Moss (teleplay) | November 9, 1996 | |
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Blair and Payback scout an unstable jump node. | ||||
| 8 | "Recreation" | Mark Edens (story) Matthew Edens (teleplay) | November 16, 1996 | |
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The crew of the Claw discovers a mysterious being in suspended animation aboard a derelict space capsule. Note: This episode is the final part of a crossover storyline that spanned the other shows in the USA Action Extreme Team lineup. The crossover began with episodes of Street Fighter ("The Warrior King"), Savage Dragon ("Endgame"), and Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm ("Resurrection").[5] | ||||
| 9 | "Walking Wounded" | Mark Edens (story) Ralph Sanchez (teleplay) | November 23, 1996 | |
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Maniac scores guard duty on a crippled medical ship. | ||||
| 10 | "On Both Your Houses" | Mark Edens (story) Shari Goodhartz (teleplay) | November 30, 1996 | |
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Blair, Maniac, and Archer pursue Kilrathi fighters to a lush tropical planet where things are not as they seem. | ||||
| 11 | "Invisible Enemy" | Mark Edens (story) Richard Mueller (teleplay) | December 7, 1996 | |
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The Kilrathi have a new and terrible weapon: the Stealth Fighter. | ||||
| 12 | "Price of Victory" | Mark Edens (story) Steve Cuden (teleplay) | December 14, 1996 | |
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Blair crashes on an ice world, where he meets an unusual Kilrathi who just happens to have an agenda... | ||||
| 13 | "Glory of Sivar" | Mark Edens (story) Mark Edens and Michael Edens (teleplay) | December 21, 1996 | |
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Blair and Grunt land on the planet Dolos, and find themselves surrounded by fur. | ||||
In March 2012, Visual Entertainment released Wing Commander Academy - The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1 for the first time.[6] The series became available on the Peacock streaming service in July 2020.
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Wing Commander Academy is a 1996 American animated television series produced by Universal Cartoon Studios, along with a team led by Larry Latham. The show was based on the Wing Commander franchise and loosely served as a prequel to Wing Commander. The show's aired from September 21 to December 21, 1996, on the USA Network's "USA Action Extreme Team" block.
Wing Commander Academy is a spin-off of Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi, published in 1993.
Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi, released in 1991 for MS-DOS by Origin Systems, is the second game in Chris Roberts' Wing Commander space combat simulation video games. Wing Commander II retains much of the first game's core conventions: an interstellar war between the Terran Confederation and the felinoid warrior race called the Kilrathi, multiple allies as wingmen, and a wide variety of ships on both sides of the war. However, WCII places a greater emphasis on storytelling, with sprite-animated cutscenes and some of the industry's first examples of voice acting. The storyline is also somewhat less open-ended: the game's campaign tree is much more structured and the player character can no longer be promoted or awarded medals. Wingmen can no longer be killed during normal gameplay; when their fighters are damaged beyond repair, they eject (though some die in scripted sequences). Finally, because the story is a direct sequel to WC, many Kilrathi ships have names similar to the WC ships they replace (for instance, the "Sartha" replaces the "Salthi", and the Confederation uses an upgraded version of the Rapier medium fighter). Expansion packs Special Operations 1 and 2, were released in 1991 and 1992, respectively, and a stand-alone spin-off, Wing Commander Academy, in 1993. Origin also released a Speech Accessory Pack, which upgraded WCII with pre-recorded voice acting in select, plot important scenes. A port for the Super NES by FCI was announced for May 1995, but never released. A Genesis version was also planned but never released.
The cadet rank at the United States Air Force Academy is determined by two factors: class year and job. First year, or fourth-class, cadets (C4C) have only one rank; but as they progress through the Academy, their roles, responsibilities, and ranks increase, culminating in their senior year, where roles as an Assistant Shop Lead garner the rank of cadet first lieutenant (C/1Lt), while roles such as the Cadet Wing Commander (AFCW/CC), Cadet Vice Wing Commander (AFCW/CV), or Cadet Wing Director of Operations (AFCW/DO) are accorded the highest rank of cadet colonel.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
MORE →Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.