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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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Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Are people jogging outside?
That..has got to be one of the most passive aggressive responses I’ve ever seen… No one is just that idiotic, right?
I was in the “idiot” camp, but now I’m leaning more towards “garbage monster.”
Why do I foresee a Garner sized hole in the wall in about 6 panels?
Every con staff always has that one R Tard who just likes to a Smartass in a bad way.
I wonder if Lynn is passing someone or if she just drives really fast and stays in the passing lane…
“You can put words together but the jury’s still out on where you can properly encode meaning.”
where = whether. Doh. Jury’s still out on me, apparently…
DIPLOMACY CHECK : FAIL
Initially, I thought Lynn was overreacting. Now I’m worried she’s going to be too nice.
Admit, that’s the sort of smartass thing I’d say. But there’s a survival trait about who such things get said to, and Garner appears to lack said survival trait.