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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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I did that once, where I slept in between the space between the walls.
At least you had walls. 😀 What about all these people sleeping across on row of circle cambered chairs? 😀
I don’t know honestly cause I have never been in that situation and I really don’t have a joke for that either. I’ll let someone else take this one on.
I always slept under the desk when doing things with the church groups. it meant I never got stepped on…
“Church groups” reminds me of a time when we did an expedition with out scouting group, and stayed at a vicarage, which turned out to be “double-booked”. We ended up with *lots* of adolescents in one room. (Don’t remember the exact number — something around 15 I guess?) Most of us were sleeping on a row of benches put side to side. I ended up at the edge of the row, and literally had the width of one bench (like 15 inches or so) available to me. I slept reasonably well though, and didn’t fall off…
(Also, it was better than the next year, when it turned out the vicarage wasn’t available at all, and we ended up homeless sleeping on the benches at the train station platforms… We were damn lucky it didn’t rain.)
I vaugely recall a church group thing where was 4 of us in a room with 2 single beds (slightly larger than cots). Sleeping on the floor was likely more comfortable.