I’m actually on a quest right now to watch all the Trek. I’ve always had a love hate relationship with it. Grew up loving the original series (TOS), watched the first couple of season of TNG largely because I was still living at home and my mom is hardcore, but once I moved out of the house the lack of quality in TNG (let’s face it that show didn’t really find its legs until season 5) caused me to be sporadic and I stayed that way through it all (again quality issues, DS9 wasn’t really solid until season 4, VGR stank all the way through, ENT is the only spinoff to start well then got weak). But once it hit the Netflix stream I decided there was a gap in my geek cred and decided to try to watch it all. I’m into season 7 of TNG now, then it’ll be onto DS9. I might abandon the quest when it’s time to hit Voyager.
Star Wars amazes me because I know most of it sucks. When push comes to shove only Empire is actually a GOOD movie, New Hope is fun but has a lot of issues, the rest basically suck. And yet when I see The Crawl, even if it’s a spoof Crawl or shows up in a documentary that’s discussing SW, a shot runs up my spine. SW excites the hell out of me. In much the same way I hate DW on a genetic level I love SW.
Hope you give some of the better of the DW stories another shot one of these days. Do you also dislike ‘Blake’s 7’ and other British SF stuff the same way? Anyway I sort of like the ST episode that Harlan Ellison wrote. I went on a big HE kick years ago and watched that along with reading much other stuff. I’ve met him and he’s a fun guy provided you don’t piss him off. He hates ST and SW and loves DW. :)