From: rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Lynch's Spoiler Review: "Realm of Fear"
Keywords: TNG, Barclay, transporters
Date: 6 Oct 92 12:52:49 GMT
Reply-To: rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu
Organization: University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Dept., Madison, WI

In <1992Oct06.043524.29581@eng.umd.edu> clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin) writes:
>In article <1992Oct5.163754.1363@ncsu.edu>, rhballan@eos.ncsu.edu  writes:
>> Forgive me for my ignorance, but, who is Timothy Lynch?
>   I think he's related to David Lynch.

>   Seriously though, he's one of those r.a.s.c. gods who post a
>review each week on the episodes.   First B.A. in astronomy at
>Cornell, one of many physics grads at CalTech, as the old
>signature says.   My guess is that he's probably atop the heap
>of reviewers in that if you asked most people who is the
>person most closely associated with this group, they would point
>to Lynch.   Or perhaps Atsushi.

Gee, how quickly they forget. :-)

>    I think more people like his review since he's a little
>more positive about Trek than some of the other reviewers
>(say, Atsushi, though despite his mostly negative reviews,
>they are usually quite informative).  Among the other reviewers
>I've seen -- Michael Rawdon, Jason Snell, Roger Tang (he's not
>reviwed in a while), one or both of the Jose's, wasn't there
>also an Uncle Mikey review?  Also there was the Shabang
>spoilerless reviews, which have also disappeared.

Tim Lynch and Mike Shappe, as I understand it, did the first regular TNG
reviews on r.a.s.  I think that Roger Tang and I came next (I'm not sure
in what order), though Shabang may have popped up before us.  (My first
review was of "The Best Of Both Worlds".  I think Roger must have done one
before me, since I think he did one for "Hollow Pursuits".)

At any rate, I think that I can reasonably claim credit for introducing
"negativity" (more accurately, a distaste for TNG, a willingness to say so
in no uncertain or apologetic terms, and an unwillingness to go away when
told :-) into rec.arts.startrek.  (When I first showed up here, the only
serious dissention I saw about TNG was about Wesley.)

>    Eventually folks get tired of the reviewing business.
>Tim mentioned that he was going to be awfully busy and
>was going to post his reviews late as well as not get as
>involved in various debates.  Rawdon said a while back that
>he was stopping his reviews (if I recall), but he's back.

Yup. :-)  I got tired of the reviewing biz, tired of the fourth season, and
too busy (among other things) to devote the time regularly to writing
reviews in something resembling a timely manner.  But, things seem more
conducive this season to reviewing, so I'm back, and back discussing some
things, too!

(And, I may have some Trek fanfic to post sometime in the near future...
though as you might guess, it's not TNG. :-)

-- 
Michael Rawdon				 rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu
University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Department, Madison, WI

"Can this world not do better than you for a champion?"
"Probably.  I just do the best I can."
					- The Brigadier
					  Doctor Who, "Battlefield"
					  [Probably misquoted]