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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I’m guessing Yellow Hat Guy was not the one just messing with Max.
“…surprisingly enough, Lynn says ‘yes’ for that last one”
Nah, Lynn doesn’t want the volunteers going rogue.
Only Lynn is allowed to hurt people on Lynn’s watch.
Nah no stabbing, but carrying a nice big stick for intimidation is ok *sarcasm(since This is obviously a joke and Trae hasn’t been able to tell if I am joking as of lately)*
…you say that, but Jessi used to carry around a big, oversized IMRD stick when she was Workforce organizer.
Yes she did and it kept us in check even though I carried my regular IMRD so that way i could break up clutter vender room walkways.
I really wish I’d never met people who actually ask these sorts of questions…
Having learned to never, ever, ever ask the hotel for anything unless you’re the liason the hard way, nothing is as clear as you think it is to your staff. Better they ask the dumb questions than guess the wrong way.
Sometimes you know there are more than one answers to certain dumb-sounding questions, so you ask them to learn the policy at this specific con.