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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 can guess that Tracy would very much like to see that, probably with Sarah in some degree of undress
She was a cheerleader!?!?!?
Hard to believe, that some of these nerdy ladies actually took part in extra curricular activities that the popular girls in high school are more likely to take part in. Surprisingly, there are a lot people like that in the con community. I was on the football and wrestling team in my high school. Football my senior year and wrestling during my junior and senior year.
That was absolutely intentional on Sarah’s part.
I’m honestly not sure it was. I mean, I’m sure she’s fine with the result, but i don’t get the impression she’d go for that sort of indirect.
She’s very experienced with flirting, mostly with straight guys. Cheerleader-into-flexibility is a very good move with that crowd.
I mean, it could be accidental, I just think Sarah’s smart enough to do it on purpose
okay, maybe I need more coffee, in the last panel is Tracy raising her hand or is that a random person in the background?
That’s another character in the background
And Tracey goes “SCHWINNGGG!”