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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The Man in charge… never thought about how often it automatically defaults to the male pronoun in these situation… Thanks Trae, just what I need to lay awake thinking about tonight.
I find it rather amusing that given the shift in personnel, the “man in charge” now in fact refers to the one member on staff who can rival Lynn in terms if fierceness. This should be fun.
One reason I like being a 6’5″ guy, I rarely have to put up with this sort of bullshit.
One reason I don’t, I occasionally get called to assist when someone else does.
yea when your over 6 foot all you gotta do is look pissed off and people raerly argue with you
Now, question. In this situation do you call the actual person running the con, or do you call the largest person(or veteran) on staff?
In my experience, it’s either the convention director or ops manager that steps in at this point. If they still refuse to leave, a legal contract is going to look better to the police than blatant intimidation. And it’s never a good idea to let stuff like this fly under the director’s nose, especially when it happens in a place attendees can see it. Head of security might be present as well depending on what happens.
Snicker… this should be good….