I don't even know how I ever started liking Star Trek. I think it was because A Channel used to play reruns of it at midnight, while there was nothing else on, and I liked to fall asleep watching TV.
To this day, I'm a total sucker for TNG. If it's on, I'll stop whatever I'm doing to watch it. Unless it's a Crusher or Troi episode. Or when Data does his Sherlock Holmes crap.
A good Worf or Picard episode, and you can pretty much write me off for the rest of the hour.