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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you’d have to sell to every person who walked in the door to turn a profit at that price
I can only assume the guest list includes Stan Lee, Dick Sprang, and Jesus Christ. The convention itself must cater to millionares who are expected to drop a few thousand in the artist alley….
Why is this reminding me of another con, that is NOT a midwest con, that was NOT a first year con, but had some outrageous prices on their artist alley, for their attendance?
And may or may not have put their AA in a damp, moldy garage? (not naming names, of course)
Wasn’t the dealers room AND Artist Alley in that black-mold infested garage?
Either way…I don’t remember the prices specifically. But if memory serves, should be something around the 120 range or something (Still flipping high)
Shesh the artist allies at the con’s down here are the same price and we get 10k plus for most anime con’s!
Even if that includes a membership, that’s hefty indeed.
For what it’s worth, New Englander’s say “wicked” on a constant basis;
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