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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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I read the comic before I saw the title. “Laziest coup ever” made me laugh heartily, I’ve actually been in a situation similar to this with a non-profit I once worked with. I became the entire Board for about a day and had only started as a volunteer a couple weeks prior. Outstanding level of incompetence they displayed.
I want to see Perry’s face now. I feel like there could be a fight down the road which may involve Lynn resolving the issue her way. This looks like a funny story that’s going to unfold into 1 hell of drama and by doing so it’s going to progress Bork Con’s recruitment a lot.
Different places have different rules. I know at our university, a Club needed a President, Vice, and Secretary. Think was 4 additional students who needed to be involved to create a club. Not sure the requirements for continuing one, nor what happens if a club fails to meet the requirements.
Well this is also taking place in late January, so the club was active in the fall when it scheduled the meetings. I was originally going to have a line about the constitution not mentioning a minimum quorum, but Lynn’s wall of text was pretty long in panel 2 already.
And technically Ruth just replaced the President. Any other club officers technically still have their positions.
(When I was writing this I actually pulled my alma mater’s Anime Club constitution and read it to check if this story was plausible, and it totally could happen there!)
Works for me. So long as none of the other club members (former members?) object, could go quite smoothly. If they do object however, could make for a bumpy ride.