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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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Oh man it is going to get out to the artist.
Really, the Nazi thing may have been the catalyst, but it’s not the reason.
The reason is because Unagi’s con chair is/was running an anti-Bork Con FB group.
True, but that’s where it started. But I do hope someone screenshotted that FB group.
Lynn stated that she took screenshots a few pages back (it’s the one right before these two driving through the snow or the one after it). And even if she hadn’t, there is definitely someone else out there who took screenshots. Internet drama tends to attract a lot of people in that respective community.
Technically Sarah has told a lie with the truth because what she said makes Jim out as a Nazi sympathizer as well as making it sound like Bork con reacting to that. This will hit the rumor mill in seconds flat. OTOH…
a) Nothing Sarah said is inaccurate, Jim did say the nazi (Terrence) was allowed to stay a
b) This might actually be how Sarah remembers things.
c) The gloves have long since come off. I both appreciate the deft use of a stiletto and tsk a bit at the underhanded strike.
Where’s the lie though?
Everything she said was the truth.
To be fair, Jim sided with the Nazi twice. Once at the con, and again with the FB group.
Two thoughts and a possible conclusion plus bonus rambling.
1) Jim is lacking con staff and resources.
2) Jim and Terrance are already working together, at least in a common bond of disliking BorkCon at its staff.
Conclusion: Terrance will be added by Jim to Unagi Con’s staff.
Ramble: It’s been mentioned that Jim has been running his con for something like a decade, and events are showing he’s perfectly willing to set up perceived “enemies” to engineer a situation back to his favor (if Bork Con folds, Garner would presumibly be free to re-join Unagi Con’s staff and it’s gear might be available for dirt cheap) and to deal out retribution. My assumption here is that this is not a pattern that developed recently. The story is still being told here, but will other former con-staffers who’ve worked with and have been burned by Jim speak up on seeing the Bork Con “drama” rising?