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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Sarah is enjoying this way too much. Also, I need to remember this.
yea Bluetooth security is a joke but one that occasionally you can laugh at
Who else is thinking of a certain AMV?
Too bad the genre’s already been established. It’d be fun to keep hitting him with Beck’s “Mother****er” every time he turned it on. It’d certainly get the point across.
Probably wants to avoid vulgarity. Too bad, because can you picture his face when he hears “It’s Britney, B****”?
i’d go for the truly diabolical and loop the song from the end of the old Lambchop tv show on PBS
This is the song that doesn’t end yes it goes on and on my friend
The Lambchop ending would drive people insane at the con. But on the other hand, it would expose the vender for the jerk he is and perhaps get him blacklisted from any cons ever. Well maybe that’s a stretch but it could get him booted out though.
I mean if you go for a cheap BT speaker sure, that could work. If the speaker has even the simplest, most basic pairing or authentication controls, that doesn’t work
It did work, though.
Let’s hope he doesn’t figure out who’s doing this and take the song literally!
Perhaps something such as Teenage Enema Nurses in Bondage would have been better.