On stage at New York Comic Con, actress Jessica Barden shared a little secret from behind the scenes of Dune: Prophecy that she worried audiences wouldn’t get to see on screen. “The footwear was Nike Airs,” Barden laughed. “My first day on set they gave me these shoes and I was like, Whoa, the Dune space dudes wear Nike Airs footwear. ”

Herbert returns to the Bene Gesserit sisterhood throughout the original Dune books, where they mostly serve as antagonists, who struggle with Paul Atreides and his family for control over the Empire and Arrakis, the home of the superdrug Spice (or melange).

Prophecy is here to close us out with a look at some of science fiction's greatest witchy figures: the Bene Gesserit from Frank Herbert's Dune. With their near-supernatural control over their minds and bodies,