ST-v-SW.Net: Trek. Wars. Pew-pew.

Here's a "pinned tweet" thread because I want to pin more than one.

@USAGoldens @matpolloy Toward the war's end, Palpatine had further consolidated power, nationalizing the banks. A mere twenty years later, commerce itself was being nationalized in the central systems. The Empire was not some conservative utopia.

@USAGoldens @matpolloy Yes, the Empire was a leftist regime. The Republic was already headed that way in the prequel era, with trade heavily restricted and even Coruscanti citizens with prestigious jobs heavily reliant on a government dole that supplied water, power, healthcare, et alia.

I have been informed the creator is a right wing Charlie Kirk supporter so I can’t in good conscience recommend this unfortunately.

@stangog @GigglingGanon No, it was on her arm, still, with her having marked it delivered already.

@GigglingGanon What did she do exactly? The order was delivered!

Uber eats driver goes ballistic attacking police in a bank in Secaucus, NJ. ​The incident, involved 24-year-old delivery driver, Jahil Rust, started when she allegedly refused to confirm an Uber Eats delivery, leading to an argument with a customer. ​By the time local police arrived at the complex, Rust was on the phone refusing to fully interact with the officer and eventually fleeing the scene on her bicycle. Officers tracked her down near the intersection of 9th Street and Flanagan Way, but the situation quickly intensified when she refused to comply with lawful orders to stop. Attempting to elude the police after trying to hit one of them, Rust fled into a nearby TD Bank at 1262 Paterson Plank Road, pushing past staff and running behind the teller counter. ​As officers moved to take her into custody inside the bank, the encounter became chaotic. As can be seen in the body cam footage, Rust physically resisted and launched attacks on an officer, striking him in with multiple objects. ​Rust was subsequently taken into custody and charged with a long list of serious offenses, including: Aggravated ass@ult against a law enforcement officer. Aggravated ass@ult with a de@dly we@pon. Terroristic thre@ts Resisting arrest by force Burglary Possession of a we@pon for an unlawful purpose. As of May 2026 there is no trail update information available. The officer did sustain injuries from the attack that were treated after she was taken into custody. The worst part is, despite the seriousness of the charges on Rust, she was immediately released back into the streets under New Jersey's new bail reform program. You would think someone unhinged enough to attack police officers would be deemed a threat to the community and held without bail. ​This is the very definition of soft on crime policies.

Extremely

@clashreport Was that an attempted abortion?

Russian forces attempted to shoot down a real stork with an FPV interceptor drone on the southern front. The stork narrowly escaped by entering a sharp spin at the last moment to evade the attack.

@Thewarjurnal_ Cinematic, indeed.

@STvSW Bro witnessed a volcano update itself with cinematic DLC 💀☄️ x.com/i/status/20589…

Wild ... meteor passes erupting volcano. The ancients would've been losing their minds and sacrificing the crap out of all the things.

@SomeRndmGuyUT @KevinLamb74 I skip the Disney season as a Lucas-Only guy, but retain the Story Reels. That said, I absolutely concur that one cannot understand what Star Wars actually is without TCW.

@STvSW @KevinLamb74 Yes. He is literally saying throw out the 7 seasons of TCW, 6 of which were directly done under George’s supervision. Which is a dumb statement. Season 1 of TCW is a little clunky. Seasons 2-7 are exceptional and truly round out Revenge Of The Sith

The Clone Wars series is 58 hours long and new live-action and animated Star Wars series' on Disney+ now exceed 220 hours of "content." This overwhelms and totally dilutes the impact of George Lucas' six film Saga about the life and children of Anakin Skywalker, which is the only authentic story of Star Wars. Do yourself a favor and make a point to cut out all of the other junk as often as you can, especially everything made by Disney (which isn't true Star Wars at all.) You can make an exception for the 2003 Clone Wars microseries because the entirety of that series is just a little over 2 hours and therefore can be binged with the films. Plus it's genuinely great. Then you'll be able to truly love and enjoy Star Wars again.

@ZamBetsy18483 For those curious, pretty sure that's an old Chevy Astro / GMC Safari.

He was more confused than anything

Here’s some behind the scenes of my photo of Starship’s engines. I can’t imagine how intense it would be to stand there ~600 feet from ignition.

@SomeRndmGuyUT @KevinLamb74 Thank you for this ... I'd initially mis-skimmed his tweet somehow and didn't catch that he was trying to suggest ditching TCW.

@KevinLamb74 The Clone Wars was largely done by George Lucas and Dave Filoni. It is the TRUE story of what happened in between Episode 2 and Episode 3. Kindly shut your hole now.

I came across a theory that AI is starting to make more mistakes because the internet is increasingly polluted with AI slop. The idea of AI cannibalising itself into obscurity is one of my favourite things ever. I hope it is true and I hope it becomes impossible to fix.

And notice that Qui-Gon points out that the risk/reward calculation for the Federation doesn't seem to make any sense, so he correctly intuits there's something strange going on. The Queen's advisers don't think she herself is in danger, because the Neimoidians need her to sign the treaty to legalize what they've done, and they know that killing her will only turn everyone against them. Yet Qui-Gon senses the Queen's life IS in danger. This is one of the subtler aspects of the plot, but this is because Sidious's interests are not necessarily aligned with those of the Federation. (And before anyone says anything, no, this isn't the movie trying to excuse the 'plot not making sense.' On a basic level we understand the logic of the plan Sidious has convinced the Neimoidians to execute, it's just that he's pressured/persuaded them into overlooking the very serious risks of failure.)

Media folks know this technique, too.

This should explain 80% of Jeep owners. I’m not stopping, not giving up. When in doubt, post more. Maybe I can pickup a spam label!

@TheDougFiles Correct. It makes Obi-Wan especially bad since he's come out and is fighting him.

Letting Anakin live the first time is understandable bc seemed like dude was toast either way. But to do that here makes obi wan responsible for every death caused by Vader afterwards

@DarthVader1701 @BallerToy1327 Wrong. x.com/STvSW/status/2…

@BallerToy1327 Yes Paramount stole Babylon 5 source material from the series Bible to make Deep Space 9.

I don't know about this one. What are your thoughts on this meme. #StarTrekDS9 #Babylon5

@NOYK1847 Well done ... I don't remember that. Interestingly, Dec. 1987 and early '88 would've been when "The Neutral Zone" story was being crafted. The story started life in Oct. but seems it went through major changes until March, so maybe that plot was 'ripped from the headlines'.

@STvSW I remember seeing news stories about it as a kid. Aha! I found out why en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Kent

There must have been a cryogenics fad in science fiction of the 90's that I have forgotten about.

@DarinWagner6 @BallerToy1327 He later claimed there was a "smoking gun", but there wasn't. x.com/STvSW/status/1…

@BallerToy1327 Straczynski himself stated that he never believed the creators of Deep Space Nine (Rick Berman and Michael Piller) had ever seen or copied his pitch.

@BallerToy1327 I annihilated JMS when he posted about having published this trash take. x.com/STvSW/status/1…