With recent news that a 3-D conversion of “The Phantom Menace” will be released next year—and really, is anyone surprised that George Lucas has latched on to yet another way to sell more copies of the same movies––I thought maybe we could focus on one of the few good things that sprang from the “Star Wars” universe: “Knights of the Old Republic.

Ah, the land before time existed, home to various reptilian and pre-mammalian creatures, and fathomed by Steven Spielberg himself! Hold on a second. Did I say “Steven Spielberg,” implying that this man, the creator of “E.T.” and so much else, had something to do with “The Land Before Time”? Your eyes do not deceive you, dear reader.