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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Wow
*crowd* Ooooooooooh.
I’m now reading his line in Loki’s voice. What’s wrong with me?
His corpse was found riddled with what appeared to be horn marks. The multiple witnesses to the event all swear they were nowhere in the vicinity when it occurred, claiming they were lost in the the vendor room.
Police say that, given the labyrinthine layout of the vendor room, their prime suspect is a minotaur.
“Witnesses say they were all in the bathroom at the time. The 4×5 ft room is being dubbed “The TARDIS’ because there are over 100 supposed witnesses”
Is that the Nerd and Tie cast there to the side?
Maaaaybe.
Since we don’t charge for autographs as of yet this wouldn’t be a problem for us. The guests might feel bad if no one was lining up for their signature.
Minion, who’s name I don’t think I’ve heard and wouldn’t bother to remember if I had? There occasionally comes a time when you need to slap your boss to keep him from doing something really stupid. It may seem cruel, but he’ll thank you in the long run. Sadly, the proper time is well past, and some interest has has built up. You’ll need to slap him more than once. Go ahead and start, I’ll let you know when to stop.
this guy reminds me of Mike from Something Positive back in the days of the redneck tree
Cue ” The Ballad of Doug Wright”…
Been going through the archives and noticed that the attendance was capped at 2000. Expecting more people is one thing, these expectations are positively delusional.
You hadn’t noticed that the first time through?