It’s the final day of DragonCon, and things are visibly winding down, but so far it’s been a blast.

• Inside Star Wars Characters. Jeremy Bulloch talked about his small part in The Empire Strikes Back as Boba Fett and the rising popularity of this minor character after the re-release of Star Wars in 1997. Aaron Allston, science fiction and fantasy writer, discussed his novels in Star Wars as well the Star Wars Expanded Universe. His favorite characters are Wedge Antilles and Wes Janson.
• In this familiar but nevertheless interesting panel, Cryptanalyist Elonka Dunin discussed Famous Solved and Unsolved Codes, with particular emphasis on the Beale, Voynich Manuscript, Dorabella, and Zodiac Killer ciphers. After leading a team that cracked the famous Cyrillic Projector cipher in 2003, her interest lies now in the CIA Kryptos sculpture. Fascinating.
• Garrett Wang, Voyager’s Harry Kim, spoke about his acting career start for Burger King commercials and the entertaining chain of events that eventually led to his role in this popular Star Trek series. He’s also a hilarious guy.

I wanted to see Dean Haglund of the cult classics X-Files and the The Lone Gunmen but was unable to due to a scheduling conflict. Perhaps next year. DragonCon is a fabulous experience and my only regret is that I didn’t know about it sooner.