A slightly heretical thought here. Is “Double Time” even necessary in Star Trek: New Frontier continuity anymore? If you ignore the reference in Double or Nothing to the Dominion War being over, and treat that novel as following immediately on the heels of Once Burned‘s framing story, then New Frontier continuity lines up roughly whereContinue reading “Allyn's Crackpot Theory: The New Frontier Chronology”
Author Archives: Allyn
Attack of the Clones and Star Trek: Nemesis
Here’s a question. Why aren’t Star Trek films an event the way summer and Christmas blockbusters are? Is it because they don’t get the coverage in the media–Premiere, Variety, Entertainment Weekly, and that ilk? Is it because a film about Jean-Luc Picard and his gang of goons is basically the same thing as the otherContinue reading “Attack of the Clones and Star Trek: Nemesis”
Half-way Through August
We’re halfway through August. How did that happen? Seems like just yesterday it was mid-May. Down here in North Carolina school has started back–none of that progressive after-Labor Day stuff like you find in the civilized portions of the world–and I think we’ve had rain every day since mid-March. It’s all really quite depressing. Well,Continue reading “Half-way Through August”
Valeyard of the Daleks
May 1997 saw the release of Virgin Publishing’s final Doctor Who novel — Lance Parkin’s eighth Doctor novel The Dying Days. Admittedly I don’t have much to go by way of comparison with the New Adventures as I’ve read only about a dozen or so of the sixty published, but it’s one of the bestContinue reading “Valeyard of the Daleks”
Allyn's Crackpot Theory: Docile Klingons
Time for a crackpot theory! In many ways, the Dominion War was a godsend for the Federation/Klingon alliance. The Klingons, steeped as they are in warrior nobility and all that rot, sent their finest warriors, the angriest, the ones with the greatest bloodlust, to the frontlines. And like the fields of Flanders, the battlefields ofContinue reading “Allyn's Crackpot Theory: Docile Klingons”
Allyn's Crackpot Theory: Ambassador Worf
Time for another Crackpot Allyn Theory! As we know, in the final Deep Space Nine episode Worf is appointed as the Federation’s Ambassador to the Klingon Empire. When we next see Worf, in Star Trek: Nemesis he is apparently no longer an Ambassador as he attends the Riker/Troi wedding in a Starfleet uniform and isContinue reading “Allyn's Crackpot Theory: Ambassador Worf”
On Johnny English
I went to see Johnny English this afternoon, having nothing else better to do. It’s goofy fun. It’s a spy spoof, without being so self-indulgent as the Austin Powers films. John Malkovich makes for a good “Bond villain,” and Natalie Imbruglia was solid as the platonic “Bond girl.” The relationship between English and his assistantContinue reading “On Johnny English”
Appearances update
The Shore Leave convention has posted the weekend’s schedule. As previously noted, I will be hosting a Doctor Who panel celebrating the show’s fortieth anniversary, Sunday at 5 o’clock. Yesterday’s news that BBCi will be web-broadcasting a six-episode animated special starring Richard E. Grant as the Ninth Doctor gives me something new and interesting toContinue reading “Appearances update”
Stress
Who doesn’t have stress? Honestly? There’s always something that gnaws at the back of the mind, that the merest thought of brings a quickening of the pulse and a pounding in the head. Stress. Normally I’m a serene person, like a Zen master. Life generally doesn’t bother me, because what happens happens and you eitherContinue reading “Stress”
Upcoming Appearance
This coming weekend, July 11th through 13th, I’ll be at the Shore Leave science-fiction convention in Hunt Valley, Maryland. The schedule for the convention hasn’t yet been announced, but I know from a phone call this evening that it is being prepared. I’ve been asked to host or moderate a Doctor Who panel for SundayContinue reading “Upcoming Appearance”