As the OP, I suppose I should say more than “I’m a Trekkie”.
I first got into Trek as a whole in '93 or '94 when I watched reruns of TNG on Friday nights. There was never anything else on and I watched it out of boredom and stubborness (it came on at 10:00, my weeknight bedtime, and I wasn’t going to go to bed a minute before I had to on the weekend) and, eventually, I found myself liking the episodes. A year or so later, I discovered *Voyager *and then the novels. After that, Deep Space Nine, and then, finally, the movies and Enterprise.
Of the five series, my favorite series by far is Deep Space Nine and I identify with it above all else. I like the other series (sans the original and the cartoon) just fine but it’s DS9, with its flawed characters and moral ambiguities that really hooked me. That, and the serial nature of the series later on… three things not found in any of the other series. You’d never see Picard sanction murder to save lives and Kirk just isn’t half the man (in my opinion) that Sisko is.
Adding all that together with the exceptional characterization of the series regulars and a good dozen or more of the recurring characters and it’s … just great. I can’t put it any other way. I sometimes get chills when watching some of its episodes and reading its Relaunch novels makes the little fanboy in me squeal.
I’m an unabashed geek.
If you want to try some episodes, I suggest seasons six and seven, the last two of the series. Being highly serialized, it would be best to try to watch them all in order though. If that isn’t your thing, the more episodic seasons three and four are really good as well.
Also, so as to not stereotype (but at the same time, embarass) myself, I will admit to being really into numerous other series over the years, including: Joan of Arcardia, Jake 2.0, Friends, Buffy the Vampire Slayers, Marvel comics in general, X-Men comics in particular, and the now defunct World Championship Wrestling. Not WWF/E though. I have some standards.
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