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When it comes to Star Wars authors, it makes sense to start at the very beginning. Alan Dean Foster has been contributing to the Star Wars universe since the 1970s, helping to expand the universe in its earliest days.

Here are 5 facts about Star Wars author Alan Dean Foster that you may not know. 

1. He wrote the very first Star Wars book

Alan Dean Foster is known as the first person to ever contribute to the Star Wars expanded universe, writing the Star Wars novel Splinter of the Mind's Eye. The book was published just a year after the original Star Wars was released. This is the first book to expand the story of Star Wars beyond the movies, but it technically isn't the first book. The official novelization of Star Wars had already been released, making Splinter of the Mind's Eye the second Star Wars book ever published. The...

Warning: The Following Article Contains Spoilers for Star Trek: Picard Season 3's Premiere - "The Next Generation"Todd Stashwick explains why his new Star Trek: Picard season 3 character, Captain Liam Shaw, has conflict with Admiral Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Captain William T. Riker (Jonathan Frakes). Shaw is the Captain of the USS Titan-a, and he is less than cordial when Riker and Jean-Luc come aboard his vessel. Shaw's hostile interaction with the former USS Enterprise commanders is a startling moment in Picard's season 3 premiere.

In an exclusive interview with Screen Rant, Todd Stashwick explained the reasons why Captain Shaw has conflict with Admiral Picard and Captain Riker in Star Trek: Picard season 3's premiere. Stashwick acknowledged how different Shaw's behavior is to what fans expect from Star Trek: The Next Generation, where Starfleet Officers tend to get along in spite of their differences. Read his quote below:

Starfleet gets...

The fate of the USS Enterprise-f has been revealed in the lead-up to Star Trek: Picard season 3. The final season of the Star Trek: The Next Generation spinoff will reunite the crew of the USS Enterprise-d and E for one final adventure. However, Patrick Stewart previously teased that there were multiple Enterprises featured in the final season of Picard, and details of one of the possible Enterprises have been revealed on social media via Star Trek Logs' Instagram page.

The official @startreklogs Instagram released 12 updates about Star Trek: Picard characters and ships leading up to season 3, and the entry about the USS Enterprise dropped new info about the Enterprise-e and the Enterprise-f!

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Previously, @startreklogs revealed canonical information about Star Trek: Prodigy written by executive producer Aaron Waltke. @startreklogs' Insta continued to give viewers further insight into each...

Prior to Star Trek: Picard season 3's premiere, the official @startreklogs Instagram page released character and ship profiles that provide major updates to Star Trek: The Next Generation's characters, and even a few famous starships. Admiral Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) reunites his old USS Enterprise-d and E crew to meet a new threat named Captain Vadic (Amanda Plummer). A few of the familiar faces from Tng make their long-awaited canonical returns in Star Trek: Picard season 3.

The @startreklogs Instagram page unveiled character profiles for nine of Star Trek: Picard season 3's main characters as well as the starships USS Enterprise, USS Titan, and La Sirena.

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Notably, @startreklogs has proven to be a canonical source of information. During Star Trek: Prodigy, the Admiral's logs by Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) delivered important and often new background information about related episodes.