Been a huge sci fi tragic since birth - with the trek original series being the catalyst. My dad used to take me to the valhalla cinemas (people getting dressed up etc) since I was about 5 years old in the 70's. Does that count as child abuse?
For anyone who needs a fix and hasn't seen them, I can not highly enough recommend the babylon 5 series (all five seasons out of dvd now I think). Very different to Trek, but powerfully done - it's a five year story arc, written from the beginning (not piece meal episodes).
Gee I need to get into some more sci fi. Started on the new making of battle star galactica, started really well but is starting to annoy a little now.