If you, good reader, met me in person, you wouldn’t know I was a Star Trek<\/i> fan. If you came over to my house, you’d see nothing to indicate my Trek<\/i> fandom.<\/p>\n
I couldn’t hide my love of Doctor Who<\/i> even if I wanted to. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I discovered Who<\/i> in the early ’80s, when the local public broadcasting station showed the Tom Baker serials as two-hour long films. I watched it up through about 1990, 1991, but lost interest about that time.<\/p>\n
After Star Trek: Generations<\/b> and the premiere of Voyager<\/b>, however, I felt like Star Trek<\/i> and I were simply out of touch with one another. Deep Space Nine<\/b> was in its third season and not exciting me, and it seemed like what I liked about Star Trek<\/i>, that undefinable quality, had been lost. So, on a business trip I needed some reading material, picked up a couple of the New Adventures novels, and that brought me back into the Doctor Who<\/i> fold.<\/p>\n
When it comes to Star Trek<\/i>, I buy only the novels and the videos of the films. Until I bought Nemesis<\/b> last week, I had only the Collector’s Editions of the first four films. Doctor Who<\/i>, however, dominates my office. There’s a CD rack with every Big Finish and BBC audio. Another CD rack of fan-produced audios. The video racks with about seventy percent of the show’s run. The bookshelf.<\/p>\n
And my keychain bears the sigil of Rassilon.<\/p>\n
So, yeah, I’m a Doctor Who<\/i> fan. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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