Current Post On Trae’s Blog:
So I'm just going to come out and say it: My favorite episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation is "Conundrum." It's episode fourteen of season five, and I just deeply love it.
I don't know if it's because I literally just assumed Erich Anderson's Commander McDuff was a random Enterprise officer of the week (which we saw quite often during the show) when I watched it as a kid during the original run, so the twist actually worked on eleven year old me. I don't know if it's because I just like a good "everyone has amnesia" story. I don't even know if it's just because it's a good Ro Laren episode. I don't know if it's just because we learn that Starfleet doesn't give a crap about lasers.
I just like it. It's neat.
And I rewatched it last night, and feel that it holds up -- which is why I found it deeply weird that the folks who wrote the episode actually think it's not that good. My favorite episode of the entire seven season run of the show was a failure according to the folks who wrote it.
And maybe, as a writer and creator, I should remember that.
Like the hardest part of releasing creative works to the public is that often, after a while, I'll start to judge those things far more harshly than when I first made them. Or I'll compare it to the potential I thought an idea had in my head. And if I don't reach that potential, I'll think of it as "bad" -- when it might just be slightly different than that idea. I have one hundred percent published stories that I thought were just sort of okay and later had someone tell me how much it meant to them to read it.
*cough*I Hate November*cough*
So I should make sure I remember Conundrum. That one of my favorite things to rewatch is considered one of those failures by its creators. That the things I make might have value, just not in the way I originally thought they should.
It's just sort of how things work out.
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I’m always thrown off when he is facing left.
HOLY CRAP THAT IT’S IT! I somehow never noticed that the direction he’s facing is cause for his hair! I always just assumed he had magical hair or something that randomly changed between panels sometimes… O.O
literaly didn’t realise thats what it was til just now
least he’s leaving on better terms then his bitch of an Ex
Tara left on bad terms?
(I mean, he’s back with Veronica, so there isn’t any other Ex to choose… unless you mean Jenna who’s super dead)
Nooooo! Now who will have the weirdest hair now!
He is kind of a dick, but I suppose there’s a point to stop at.
Yeah walking away from a convention staff is hard. I did just this after the last NoBrandCon… Except I hope it didn’t come off quite so dickish.
Im about to be stepping away from my home con after 5-6+ years and i feel really really guilty about it because i’m normally the only person willing to pull morning line control (as in wake up at 6am and be at the doors around 7am). A lot of other things as well but i just know its time T^T but doesnt stop the sad the guilt lol