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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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Could’ve sworn Sarah claimed to be straight at one point… Or am I thinking of someone else?
She realized she was bisexual a few chapters back. She realized she had feelings for Ruth.
Yeah, Sarah at one point THOUGHT she was straight,
Turned out not so much. Which is not uncommon for someone in their early twenties not to have figured everything out about themselves.
I mean, she and Ruth have been in a polyamorous relationship since the end of chapter seven…
I almost directly quoted the comic there… http://www.unconventional-comic.com/2016/07/the-confession/
@Gordo – Thank you! I remember her stating she had feelings for Ruth, but forgot the line about not being entirely straight.
@Langland – The way I see it, you can have feelings for someone that goes against your sexuality, thus why why Sarah liking Ruth made sense (she’s known her a good while by the time this comes up).
But she literally just met Tracy, so without the “not entirely straight” admission, I got confused.
So…. how tall is ‘tall’ in this specific case? As someone who is 6’5″ from a family of people over 6′, my perspective on such things is off.
I don’t like giving exact heights, because lord knows I’ll forget later and end up contradicting myself, but she’s over 6 feet tall for sure.
Sarah’s also probably only 5’1″ to 5’3″?
(Lynn, for reference, is one of the only characters with an “official” height at 5’4″ and Ruth is close to that. Lynn’s boots have a slight heel though, so Ruth is probably closer to 5’5″. Sarah, on the other hand, is consistently drawn shorter than that by a few inches)
I’m not going to remember specific numbers anyway, but thank you for the rough idea.