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Tonight’s “Hidden Enemy,” looks pretty clone-centric. Director Steward Lee and writer Drew Greenberg discuss the episode’s premise, while Pete Vilmur interviews Nika Futterman, who voices Ventress.

• Last week: Watch ‘Trespass’ or see what others thought at the review blog, Den of Geek, and Television Zombies.

• Podcasts: The Force-Cast’s Clone Wars roundtable discusses ‘Trespass,’ while EUC’s We Talk Clones takes on “Defenders of Peace.”

Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II won Annie Awards for Best Animated Television Production, Writing, and Voice Acting for Ahmed Best’s Jar-Jar. But perhaps the biggest shock was the total shut-out of WALL-E – it was beat in nearly every category it was nominated for by Kung Fu Panda. Seriously. Kung Fu Panda. The hell?

Other winners include Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs and Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Kevin Kiner was up for Music in an Animated Television Production for the ‘Rising Malevolence’ episode of The Clone Wars, but lost out to Henry Jackman, Hans Zimmer & John Powell for Secrets of the Furious Five, a Kung Fu Panda spinoff.

It’s Friday, and ‘Trespass’ debuts tonight. The episode introduces Chairman Chi Cho, voiced by Brian George, and also features quite a bit of Threepio. Get a preview with the latest webcomic, ‘Cold Snap’

• Last week: Watch ‘Defenders of Peace.’

• Reviews: CJ reader Ben Rollman (Xadrian) is doing them for Television Zombies. Here’s ‘Jedi Crash.’
• Podcast: The Force-Cast’s Clone Wars Roundtable talk ‘Defenders of Peace’ with Fanboy’s Kyle Newman.
• Merchandise: eFX is producing an Ahsoka Tano Lightsaber; Some new kid’s books from Penguin.

The pacifist lemur storyline came to an end with ‘Defenders of Peace.’ I think they need an entire episode of Palpatine laughing his bum off after this.

• Interviews: George Takei (Lok Durd) and Jennifer Hale (Aayla Secura.)

• Reviews: The review blog, io9 and IGN.
• Next week: Break out the parkas for ‘Trespass.’

Friday’s ‘Jedi Crash’ brings the Jedi to Maridun, home of a colony of Irish-accented Lurmen. In the video commentary, Dave Filoni talks about the comic book influences in the episode.

• Next week: The story continues in “Defenders of the Peace.”

• People: George Takei crosses fandom lines to voice General Lok Durd in next week’s episode. I hope the character survives, if only because that name demands at least one buddy episode with Dooku.
• Reviews: Waiting until Tuesday nets all the regulars: The review blog, IGN, io9 and Den of Geek.
• Comics: UK fans can pick up Clone Wars comics.

The man who brought us Khan lives no more.  Ricardo Montalban passed away yesterday morning at the age of 88.

CJ honors the passing of a great contributor to the geek world, from his roles as Star Trek’s Khan, to movies including Naked Gun and Spy Kids, and of course Fantasy Island.  There are also many CJ’ers who are fans of the series Kim Possible which he contributed to recently.

Raise a glass of Romulan ale and toast farewell with us!

• Lightsabre has part three of their talk with Lorne Peterson.

• The Fantasy Book Critic interviews Gregory Keyes, touching briefly on his Star Wars work.
• Toon Zone picks the brain of voice actor Bob Bergen, who’s talked Luke Skywalker for video games and the occasional Robot Chicken.