When Master Yoda (Frank Oz) arrives at the Senate to confront newly-self-appointed Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), they exchange some memorably sassy insults, from "my little green friend" to ...

A crescendo. At times, it was difficult to grasp that they would see in their lifetime the fall of the Republic and the annihilation of the Jedi Order. And yet Palpatine seemed to know it to be true.

That would be some elaborate explanation of Palpatine’s return in the new Star Wars trilogy, but really, just the third movie, Rise of Skywalker. We know Pershing was working with genetic ...

There may still be a connection between the planet and the Sith Lord publicly known as Sheev Palpatine, though, and that is hinted at when the At Attin supervisor's (Stephen Fry) confronts Jod Na ...

At that, a clip began, but it wasn’t from the Capitol. It was from the Galactic Senate of “Star Wars” — namely, Palpatine’s declaration of seizing power from “Revenge of the Sith.” ...