This is probably for another thread which I've failed to discover thus far, but: I guess if you asked my friends/relatives, my most controversial opinion regarding Star Trek would be that I like it at all. What is it about Star Trek which generates such pushback? If I'd said that I'm into gardening now, or cheesemaking, or keep fit or Satanism, my nearest and dearest would've been, "Okay, cool." But start watching Star Trek and the entire endeavour is met with a weird melange of suspicion and dread. There must be an angle they've not considered, like maybe I'm just researching how awful it must be to be a Trekkie, or maybe a winch fell on my head while I was out shopping for saveloys or something. If I have to say, "You know, it's really not that bad" one more time I'm going to start preemptively karate-chopping my way through everybody like a side-scrolling beat-em-up character (in fairness, my wife has become a lot cooler about it over the last few weeks and has even uttered the words "It's not too bad really" herself). I just know that if I'd said, "Oh, I only just started watching The Wire, it's brilliant, isn't it?" nobody would bat an eyelid.
