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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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I trade early morning one man(woman lol) staffing for getting to go to sleep before midnight xD Granted i miss all the “fun” stuff but my department head isn’t mean enough to keep me from 6am to 3am lol I’m pretty much the only person outside from 7am to doors opening Friday and Saturday corralling lines, making sure artist ally people get in and answer questions for at least 2 hours
Is it because Sarah’s the newest staffer, or because she can outrun the stench?
Because she’s the newest.
You can’t outrun that odor.
You can outrun the worst of it… but then you’re gasping for breath in the rest of it, and end up worse off.
Only time I ever went in to a dance was AI 2008. More or less because I was trashed out of my gorge.
But my GOD, that does not leave your nose.
I hope Sarah kicks Veronica’s ass after the con. She probably could, she’s probably secretly a badass and know many ways to kick one’s ass and make them pay.big time. She probably knows a little of every martial arts including boxing, jujitsu, tae kwon do, karate, Some wrestling, grappling. And only because it was in her blocked schedule growing up since she probably had Baby Boomer parents who did that kind of thing with their kids.
Anyways to get back on topic, I hope she kicks Veronica’s ass after this con.
Sarah is not skilled in any martial arts. Whatsoever. No idea why you’d think that.
She is a very good soccer player though.
She kind of gives me an idea that she can kick someone’s ass.
Well she’ll kick Veronica in the shin
Worked a winter con with a all-weekend Battletech room with minimal ventilation and closed doors. Made “dance stink” seem like roses somewhere around late afternoon Saturday. You could almost see it roll out when the door opened…