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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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Let’s see – Max locks the thread, Terrence blames it on Veronica, so he decides to egg Ruth and Sarah’s house? Badly?
I’m kind of glad he alternates into these periods of total incompetence.
Well, he probably doesn’t know it was Max who did it, and Ruth and Sarah are the only ones he knows where live.
I think Terrence should seek from help maybe from a psychologist or a anger management course. Either that or everyone involved in Bork Con staff could get a restraining order on him.
Honestly, he should seek help from a fist in the face. Sadly enough, some people just reach a certain level of jackholery that they’re never going to back down from, because no one’s ever forced the issue. I’m not all about “Yay, violence!” but the few people I’ve met that are this level of narcissistic messed up just will not quit until someone makes it clear to them that further shenanigans will result in pain. Use sparingly, but some people literally will not pay attention to anything short of immediate pain or incarceration. And at this point, it’d be hard to achieve the latter.
Not too hard. Call the cops, tell them some kid is egging your house. I give it a 50/50 chance Terrance ends up throwing eggs at the cops. And a big part of it only being 50% is because he might run out before the cops get there.