Chris Farnell

Norwich

Senior Editor and Journalist at Business Focus Magazine

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Writing at @DenofGeek @TitanBooks @DWBBCBooks @BonnierBooks_uk @RadioTimes @RowanRookDecard & Fermi's Progress. Once quoted on Barbenheimer's wikipedia page

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Articles

Doctor Who: What's Stopping the TARDIS From Returning to Earth?

1 week ago | denofgeek.com | Chris Farnell

Warning: contains spoilers for Doctor Who episode “The Robot Revolution”. Oh, the infinite promise of the TARDIS. That little blue box can take you through all of time and space, everything that ever happened or ever will, every star that ever was… except when it doesn’t.
Doctor Who's Blend of Laughter and Fear Has Always Been Its Strength

1 month ago | denofgeek.com | Chris Farnell

Tenth Doctor, Fourteenth Doctor, and Metacrisis Doctor Duplicate actor David Tennant does a podcast called, imaginatively, David Tennant Does a Podcast With…, and this week he picked up an extremely crowd-pleasing guest in the form of his old boss, Russell T Davies. If you were hoping for Frost/Nixon, you’d be disappointed.
Why Has Sci-Fi TV Stopped Imagining Our Future?

1 month ago | denofgeek.com | Chris Farnell

There is no better way to start a long and tedious science fiction fandom fight than by asking for a definition of the genre.
Why the Kitchen Is the Most Important Room in a Sci-Fi Spaceship

1 month ago | denofgeek.com | Chris Farnell

A science fiction spaceship is a lot like a house party. When I see one, the first thing I want to know is what’s going on in the kitchen. Interior designers are the unsung heroes of sci-fi worldbuilding, and a bit of carefully dressed set can do the work of a dozen dramatic exposition-filled voiceovers or lengthy opening text crawls. And this is nowhere more evident than the kitchen. Take a look at your own kitchen. What appliances have you got?
Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture Novel Shows a Very Different Vision of the Trek Universe

1 month ago | denofgeek.com | Chris Farnell

For a franchise whose core tenet is exploring the unknown, the universe of Star Trek is extremely well mapped out. Following the events described by its TV shows and movies, we can create a pretty comprehensive timeline of events from last year (the year of the Bell Riots, Irish reunification and the first crewed mission to Europa) to the mid-33rd century. If you want to know the distance from Betazed to Bajor, there are reference materials that exist to help with that.
Quatermass: The Show That Defined UK Sci-Fi TV

2 months ago | denofgeek.com | Chris Farnell

At the risk of offending a lot of geeks, British sci-fi TV is a pretty easy thing to be an expert in. If you’re in your 30s or 40s, your parents probably remember when the subgenre started existing. We’ve covered the high points of the genre on this very website, from the the 70s to the 80s to the 90s, and into the 21st century.
The Doctor Who Episodes that Define Each Doctor

2 months ago | denofgeek.com | Chris Farnell

Over the last 62 years, Doctor Who has been a lot of different TV shows, and the Doctor has been a lot of different characters, in more ways than one. There are common strands: cleverness mixed with tomfoolery mixed with one hell of an ego, an idiosyncratic dress sense, and a tendency towards big noses and Scottish accents. But each Doctor has their very own distinct flavour, and in each Doctor’s era, there is one story that captures the essence of the era.
Will the Apple TV+ Adaptation Get The Murderbot Diaries Right?

2 months ago | denofgeek.com | Chris Farnell

If you read science fiction, or have anyone in your life who reads science fiction, then at some point over the last few years, someone will probably have told you “You should really read The Murderbot Diaries.”At first glance, you might wonder why.
Star Trek Movies Ranked From Worst to Best (Including Section 31)

2 months ago | denofgeek.com | Ryan Britt |Mike Cecchini |Chris Farnell |Joe George

You’d think there wouldn’t be all that many surprises in a ranking of the various Star Trek movies. Official fan doctrine tends to elevate a select handful of them to the very top (and rightfully so, because when this franchise is great, it’s really great) while dismissing, fairly or unfairly, others. But the reality is, there’s such a wide array of tones across Star Trek films that one fan’s skippable entry is another fan’s favorite (well…most of the time).
Why Section 31 Fails as Star Trek's Suicide Squad Movie

2 months ago | denofgeek.com | Chris Farnell

This Star Trek article contains spoilers for Section 31. After an extremely long wait, which has seen it truncated from a spin-off show into a TV movie while Michelle Yeoh has gone and become an Oscar winner, Star Trek: Section 31 is finally here. We have reviewed it. We got the man who wrote a defense of “Sub Rosa” to review it. This article will not add anything to his assessment of its quality (or absolute lack thereof).