Timothy W. Lynch

Timothy W. Lynch is an astronomer but better known as a well-respected internet critic of Star Trek series, especially Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He posted insightful, balanced, and rather elaborate reviews of every episode of The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. He famously "gave up on" Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise during their runs and refused to review any more episodes due to a lack of time and a perceived reduction in quality of those series. Ironically, other critics noted that Voyager substantially improved in quality toward the end of the third season (following a "curse" that coincidentally has repeated the same pattern for each Star Trek series) not long after Lynch gave up on it.

The movie Star Trek: First Contact featured a character named for him, "Ensign Lynch". The character was assimilated by the Borg and then killed by Captain Picard.

He attended Cornell University and the California Institute of Technology. He currently teaches in New Jersey.