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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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So, it looks like Jim is actually a reasonable person, barring his obsession with tedious scheduling. I’m looking forward to seeing how this plays out. Most likely with Garner getting tossed out on his ass I’m guessing. Wonder what his beef with Bork Con is…
This storyline has my “intergroup politics” senses tingling.
Garner wouldn’t pick this fight and be open about it unless he’s really secure or really stupid. Garner doesn’t seem stupid to me, but too smart for his own good if anything.
So what’s Garner’s game then? Lynn is a means to an end as was, I suspect, everything he said to Lynn.
I suspect the poor thing actually believes there is Power in being the head of the committee, plans on making a move and is trying to get rid of possible, competent, competition. If he’s completely out of luck he will succeed and his new domain will collapse around him.
“The fact that we seriously considered eliminating the website, and kept it largely due to technicalities proves the con needs you!”
Reputation from “Glitter Indicident”. Hoo boy. 🙂
I think that’s actually supposed to be ‘repercussions’ just misspelled, which may be worse.
Which reminds me…
Hey, Trae, any chance of seeing unobstructed closeups of the whiteboards?
Once the move is complete, of course.
That sounds like a great thing to add as bonus material in the books or to start releasing to Patreon subscribers 😛
‘Mouse Whispering’… I have concerns…
Hmm – I’m smelling the con running equivalent of the coup de etat attempt. All hail El Garnerisimo? Mind you, the fact that the con has been running this long will likely mean that Garner will be in for a surprise or 4. No one stays in the position Jim is in – even in his passive fashion – even hail-marying last minute clusterfark cons together – without some major social kung fu. Sort of a “Submissive Badass” trope example. They’re creampuffs until you upset their applecart in a way that annoys them. Then they’re sort of quietly, relentlessly, and politely send your arse to the metaphorical cleaners. They ARE at home to Mr. Reasonable, and he has lent them his might 😉
Or, as usual I’m dead wrong and it’s something completely different!