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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 thought there would be more intensity. But I argue with the guy in the black fedora, when you have girls, why would you want to leave.
Grin – back when my kid was in middleschool, the D&D club didn’t want her to join for some reason. She mentioned this to the gamers at the next con she attended. The universal reaction of the male gamers present “Are they NUTS?”
You guys wanna join Bork Con staff?
We’ve got HATS.
you only really need to run screaming from con staff when the con is only just around the corner. mine cruise parties and uni halls like old-timey royal navy officers trying to impress unsuspecting (and us suspecting) hapless souls.
Interested in the third guy… because he seems to have a clue, and moreso as looks kinda familiar…
I literally tried to make those three look like the most stereotypical three geek dudes I could think of.
I definitely see elements of myself in all three.
*shudder*
My jeans are black and I currently have a mustache. Elsewise, is like you worked off a picture. Guess I fit the ‘generic geek’ look. XD