Talk:Star Control 3

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The statement that "many fans and the authors of SC/SC2" consider SC3 non-canon is baseless. The cited link points to an interview with Paul Reiche III in which he poses the purely hypothetical idea of another Star Control game, saying that in order to create a sequel to SC2 some of the things done in SC3 would need to be "undone". What he meant by that is only speculation. A new game could be set in an alternate universe or events could unfold that manipulate the established timeline or maybe happen in the timeframe between SC2 and SC3. Just because someone doesn't like SC3 (I didn't care for it much either), doesn't mean it's acceptable to conclude that it is considered non-canon. Nowhere in the interview was that stated or even hinted at. The statement about "undoing things" is purely hypothetical and vague at best. Would you immediately assume any game that receives a sentiment of the slightest regret is automatically considered non-canon by its author?

If you don't like that explanation, take a different view of it. Atari OWNS Star Control and only 3 official Star Control games exist. In order for Toys for Bob to create another game in the series, they would first have to procure the rights from Atari, then they would have to develop a game. Since none of that has happened, lets leave this as-is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.133.71.0 (talk) 22:06, 27 March 2008 (UTC)


 * That is simply incorrect. Atari only owns the Star Control title as a trademark, but Toys for Bob retained the rights to the universe, races, ship names etc. This in fact allowed TfB to release the source code of Star Control 2 under the GPL license at 2002, prompting the fan community to launch the Ur Quan Masters fan project which is a working Windows port of Star Control 2. To release a sequel, the only thing TfB needs is a budget. If you wish, you can browse the UQM project site and read the fan petition sent to developers. Michagorov (talk) 00:04, 16 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Log of IRC chat session with Fred Ford, Paul Reiche III on #uqm-tfb on freenode, 2007-06-13, 13:30 PDT: "I think you will see an SC3 someday. Paul and I have every intention of continuing our almost 19 year collaboration and we're still excited about SC." implying that SC3 will be retconned. There are other quotes here. There's a couple orders of magnitude more quotes on the "non-canonicity" by the fans on the net even if you dispute the author's opinion expressed in a number of occasions. GhePeU (talk) 19:14, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

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Removed shameless link to commercial site. 217.233.186.244 (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 11:55, 23 January 2009 (UTC).

Canon
The issue of Star Control 3 being non-canon is widely discussed by the surviving fan community of this game. I think that by this day and time there is already enough documented evidence produced by the active fan community, first and foremost the Ultronomicon fan site, to safely deduce the true feelings of the Star Control franchise fans about this game. Michagorov (talk) 00:04, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Source

 * https://web.archive.org/web/19980207215839/http://ogr.com:80/news/news0996.html
 * https://archive.org/stream/CGStrategyPlus_assorted/CG-StrategyPlus-61#page/n67/mode/2up
 * https://web.archive.org/web/19980210225812/http://www.ogr.com:80/specials/sc3interview.shtml
 * https://archive.org/stream/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_149#page/n303/mode/2up/
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20020416050517/http://www.machome.com:80/reviews/archive/categories.lasso?category=Games
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20160322195709/http://scans.roushimsx.com/PCGamer_1996_12_pg260.jpg - https://web.archive.org/web/20160322191016/http://scans.roushimsx.com/PCGamer_1996_12_pg261.jpg
 * https://web.archive.org/web/19961220224414/http://www.nuke.com:80/cgr/news/9607/starcon.htm
 * https://archive.org/stream/UneditedPCGamer_marktrade/PC_Gamer_019u#page/n169/mode/2up
 * https://web.archive.org/web/19970606053918/http://www.next-generation.com:80/news/071796d.html
 * E3 1995 Coverage
 * Making of Star Control 3

Good articles
This was nice to read and really took me back. I am surprised this is a good article before the first two games in the series. I hope people keep working on those! Jorahm (talk) 20:44, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

Reviews
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 * The Duelist #17