Current Post On Trae’s Blog:
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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…Wouldn’t it be simpler to make your own cons run the way you want? Terrence can start with Unagi con, which would have to be friendly to the Cause, right?
Everybody’s happy then or at least working on their own stuff and not trying to tear each other down.
Which given human nature is probably too much to expect…
I just find all this amusingly current given how Midwest FurFest just told Milo Yiannopoulos “Don’t come, we don’t want you here.”
is THAT why the proud boy tw@ts are planning to attend?
Would not be surprised. The story as I know it is that Milo publicly announced that he had bought a ticket and invited others to come as well, talking about hosting a right wing panel, etc. People caught wind, complained to FurFest. FurFest decided to rescind Milo’s registration. Milo has made some noise about taking action, and that’s all I know.
What strikes me as sort of sad (beyond the stupidity of the agenda in the first place that is) is that with just about any most groups, that last panel would be insanely overblown parody rhetoric, to the point that Dr. Evil would be hassling Trae about writing scenery chewing characters. In this case, it sounds about right.
hello restraining order extension