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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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Not to be “that guy”, but you have a typo. Garner’s word bubble says “how MAN hours have you worked”…
Don’t worry man, if you hadn’t, I would have.
Ugh, I gendered you based on your avatar… Sorry if I’m off-base.
Ugh. Thanks. I’ve fixed it.
You aren’t the first or the last to do it. Just about everyone I’ve seen with a comic that’s gone long term has put one up at one time or another. At least you didn’t end up with a typo that made the speech all seriously capital W wrong.
Oh, I do it all the time — I just usually notice and fix it within an hour of the comic going live 😛
I have been in Sarah’s shoes.
I split my time between the game room, dealers room, and working more security with nothin’ else to do. And the latter and the former often doubled up as ‘game room monitoring’, which I was able to do while playing games.
Sounds to me like it’s time for a nap…. then again, I tend to spend Con running a panel until 6am.
How much you wanna bet there’s a requirement of 16 hours worked to maintain a staff position? I know my con has that requirement.
If Sarah works teardown, that would give her at least one more hour (and many cons count double points for work done during teardown)