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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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This needs to be a panel.
The only problem is that it takes a comprehensive knowledge of the shows.
So, what, you’re saying there’s a surfeit of potential panelists? 😉
More like a dearth–I’ve been to way too many panels where the panelists’ knowledge was severely lacking.
so you make it a competition, the shows are assigned randomly and a panel and you have X amount of time to create your pitch then a team of of judges score the pitches
it would be The masquerade for aspiring writers and fan fic enthusiasts
I’d watch this panel.
the proposed mash up would be a lot like Escaflone or Aura Battler Dunbine
I prefer to think of it as “Alchemech: Destiny of the Hunters”
Until the tank starts dating one of the mechs.
Well Toei Animation in Japan made a merged episode of DBZ, One Piece, and Toriko in the show One Piece. Just wanted to put that out there.
They did even worse in an episode of Gintama.
I thought it was Maychek…
Also spelling error in Panel 3, “Cark”
Oof – thanks for catching the typo.
As for the pronunciation of “Macek” — I’ve always heard it pronounced “May-sek,” so at the very least (whether it’s right or wrong) that’s how Max and Veronica would say it. 😛
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PANEL IDEA
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