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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oh Terrence, you just rolled a 1 on your self-preservation roll.
(and now we see the douchiness inherent in the scumbag)
This is where he needs a good kick in the nuts.
But he rolled a natural 20 on his douchebag roll!
Damn, this guy is leaning hard on the “I’m a jerk” button. When do we get to the part where we find out it’s his fault for not patrolling as he should have. Technically it’s not the con’s fault the chandelier fell, it’s a dumbass attendee.
I depends on when it happened, either before or after the room was signed back over to the hotel.
Not going to lie, getting kind of silly how much of a dick he is.
I am going to guess he is some evil conglomeration of assholes you have met over the years.
I would not doubt that. Since Trae has work in the convention scene for many years and has attended a variety of cons in his lifetime, he has run into some of the biggest jackasses you could ever meet. Although his characters are fictional, they are based a lot on his own experiences in life. trust me, I used to be one of the Assholes he ran into when I was a teenager although I was never as bad as Terrence here.
SOMEONE KICK HIM IN THE BALLS ALREADY
There were moments I had hope for a redemption arc for Terrance. Those moments are very much over.
Totally brain free….