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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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Heh, so this is a case where Terrence will see a dude asleep in the video room and attempt to wake him up rather rudely just to show his power.
When Terrence comes to, we find out that the dude was active special forces and was only in the room to keep his GF company while she finishes her video room shift.
Ran a con near several military bases, So it was drilled in to all staffers that if you see anyone asleep in con space, to get the head of security. The above is a true story of one of our enthusiastic security grunts who thought he was the Terrence.
I got 20 bucks on assaults a homeless m as n and 10 on gets himself shot and blames ruthl
ooh this is going to go so well…Can’t wait to see how Ruth has to handle dealing with dudebro’s sorry butt when he goes to harrass some attendee/or staffer off shift to “control the chaos” that doesn’t exist at 4am because everyone is either asleep, or in the drunk tank having a blast being drunk.
Why am I thinking of the Coneheads right now?
I’m sorta thinking Ruth/security starts getting calls about some weirdo harassing guests…
Oh joy, loose cannon alert…