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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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The last time Noble got a line was in 2016. It was ‘Jesus.’
Her money, her idea
No, it is her money, she should not be running the con, way too many chances of conflicts of interest.
Looks at *name of con redacted*.
That can go both ways though. No skin in the game sometimes amounts to “my way even when it makes no sense economically.”
…Well who else? Punch all the Nazis, no restraint. Only legal ramifications.
No, an anti-hate speech policy that is actually enforced by the con director. And a couple of big dudes on staff who just happen to be the ones called on to escort anyone off the premises who becomes an issue. Terrence would have been far less likely to object if the anime nerd staffer talking to him was a 300 lb construction worker for his day job.
Lynn is the obvious choice, but likely should be some sort of Due Process. May want to check with the BorkCon charter or whatever paperwork there is. Likely something as simple as “All in favor of Lynn being in charge? All opposed? Motion passes.”
So I decided not to spend a couple strips explaining this, and I’ll toss in some dialogue to clarify later, but this is all being done within the rules of the org. This meeting has a quorum and two board members present (Ruth as Treasurer and Lynn as Secretary)
Works for me.