remember reading all these star trek fics when i was quite young and discovering the fandom for the first time, like eighteen years old. things just didn't seem bad back then

I feel the same way about my own first fandom, LEXX - the fanfic is unspeakably bad, there probably isn't a single fic without at least one Mary Sue, and I couldn't reread any of them without having to either laugh or cry - but when read them for the first time, I thought it was the best thing ever, and I'll always have a soft spot for that fandom, even if I can't revisit it.