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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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YES! YES!
Sometimes you just gotta be blunt.
Also, Lynn is wearing pants again. I’m still wierded out by this.
She’s not wearing pants — it’s her standard skirt/boots. It gets kind of lost with the angle, but you can see her stick-knees if you look closely.
It’s one of the magical side effects of Boots of Whoosh!
This is an interesting way to end this event even though there is one more day left.
I don’t know why, but for the last two days of the strip I’ve been hearing Lynn’s voice as Raven from Teen Titans Go. It’s got that whole “you humans are crazy” vibe….
That’s not too far off from how she’s always sounded in my head.
Maybe a little lower.
Like somewhere between there and Aubrey Plaza
Hovertext that isn’t the strip title! Hooray!
too hard for disney to keep the triad they spent a season of girls meets world setting up going bast 4 episodes in the following season
Grin – go Lynn! Been there done that sorta, no t-shirt though.