While I loved your “Navigating the `X’ Galaxy” feature (June 7), I did note a few omissions:
– Who is Mr. X14 on the chart? Your “files” on the outer margins only go up to X13.
– X6. Terry O’Quinn once guest-starred on the “X-Files,” in an early episode called “Aubrey”–as a policeman.
– X7. Who says that The Cigarette Smoking Man couldn’t still be Mulder’s father as well as the father of Samantha Mulder and Jeffrey Spender. In “Talitha Cumi” and “Herrenvolk” he makes it clear that he’s known Mulder’s parents longer than either Mulder sibling has been alive, and based on physical appearance/coloring/height, etc., he looks far more like Mulder than Mulder’s “real” father.
All in all, this was a truly enjoyable feature, and the graphics were delightful.
Editor’s note: Mr. X14 was Kenneth Starr, as explained in the entry for X-9.
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