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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Why do I get the feeling we’re going to see some other familiar faces soon?
Bit of a spelling error in the middle panel. “We won’t BR able to to run the event.
Longshot, but I hope Garner jumps ship. I miss Garner.
He started off as a real twat-waffle, but joining forces with Lynn against Nazis and backing her up in the aftermath rather endeared me to him. Goes to show that even seemingly jerk-off people can have good qualities.
Maybe it’s cold?
Hey now, the metabolically challenged can be great workers and can follow orders very well… admittedly the zombies can get a bit bitey, but just think of it as aggressive recruiting for next year…
….my point being don’t exclude someone just because they lack a pulse.
Who knew Reg Shoe weighed in on internet comics?
For a couple years we had panel meetings of ‘PETU’… People for the Ethical Treatment of Undead. So conventions and zombie rights are tied together in my brain.
Ethical treatment of the Undead. That’s like … stitches and bandages, not Cure Light Wounds? 😛
Setting the bar high, there.
typo: we wont BR able to run the event