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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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Is she reacting to something ahead of her, or are attendees not supposed to be handing out flyers?
Insert Doctor Who cliffhanger sting!
Check the tags.
Cancel cliffhanger sting, insert dramatic chord (shrubbery).
Poor Lynn…and not a blunt object in sight.
She could grab his ponytail and go all Trunchbull on his ass…
@Lincilla, The human body is rather blunt, wouldn’t you say?
Where is the popcorn?
And this guy is surely going to be barred from Bork Con for sure.
Oh dear lord, if I had a buck for every time…
Well, I could pay for my hotel room for a con, but seriously…
I’d worry that he’s still not wearing a badge but it appears that nobody at Bork Con is wearing a badge.
Amusingly, if you had seen the original artwork for this strip before things got covered up, you’d see that two of the people in the background are clearly drawn with badges on.
Mostly I just forget to draw them a lot though. 😛