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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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…and that’s probably the healthiest breakfast anyone at the con had.
Nah, NebrasKon has a Perkins right across the street. Many a bleary eyed breakfast had there. And lunch. Several dinners. More than a few late night snacks.
I have never been to Nebraskon, but I have eaten at that Perkins. Twice.
I can confirm that Omaha does, in fact, have a Perkins.
The weird thing is, I think that’s one of maybe…two? Perkins in the entire town.
Lincoln has more Perkins than Omaha, and its half the size of this town. Weird stuff.
I go for the McDonald’s Breakfast. Sausage McMuffin with Egg, Hasbrown and a Coke.
It’s not the healthiest thing out there, but it’s better than pixie sticks.
ewww mcmuffins are terrible… biscuits all the way.
Ewwwwww biscuits?! i do prefer the egg mcmuffins, can’t stand sausage. The breakfast burritos are OK. I wonder if they still have danishes.
I once spent most of a con flying on Space Food Sticks, with occasional portions of a beef log we all chipped in on… One of a number of experiences which probably have more folks then me me wondering how on earth I managed to live into my sixties. 🙂
One of the reasons I started having a Registration Staff breakfast on Thursday morning was to make sure all my staff got a halfway decent breakfast Thursday morning.