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As long as we're sharing...
I was a Trek:TOS fan from the beginning, although I didn't see the entire series until it was into local syndication (I watched 2 of them on the first airing, being allowed to stay up late those nights as a special treat). It took me a bit to get into ST:TNG, seeing the potential but having to grit my teeth at the bad writing and hapless acting until they found their stride, somewhere in the middle of the second season. DS9 had promise that they only occasionally lived up to. Voyager started out strong, and had some of the most intelligent Trek material since TOS in my opinion, but was getting weak at the end. Enterprise=useless, from day one.
I was a fan of Anderson's UFO series, good characters and a hackneyed but workable premise, but not 1999... cardboard characters and a weak premise were killers. Loved B5, and still plan to convert my manually-recorded VCR tapes of the entire series to DVD, soon. Also loved Farscape for excellent characters and lush settings/stories, and want to add that to my collection.
Firefly was great, despite (yes, despite) ye olde western dialog. Don't get me wrong, the "space as frontier" motif works for me, but not really with the circa 1880 dialog ("Now that we're kissin' sky, I'm'a hankerin' for some vittles..." shyeah). Still, I realize that Whedon was using that as TV shorthand to capture the right mood, so I rolled with it.
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