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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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Take a year off? Then fund raiser the hell out of the Con?
This never would have happened under Max ;p
this happened cause the money guy who worked under Max rand off with the funds to vegas
Lesee…loans are very unlikely. Nobody is independently wealthy or knows someone with enough income to support the con.
Crowdfunding seems a possible answer. A kickstarter is a definite possibility. The group is quirky and interesting enough that they could provide continuing content to make a Pateron conceivably work (and get feedback from a limited selection of Bork Con fans as a guide for the next con). I don’t know how many people would actually support the con in either venue, but there wouldn’t be much harm in hanging out the shingle. There’s a lot of publicity they’d have to do to have any real chance of success however.
Terrence could present a huge issue to crowdfunding. He could surface with a lot of negative stories about his treatment.
On the other hand, people who have met Terrance might help out just to spite him.
Do we know Terrence is not rich, I could see him buying the con out of spite being the next big story.