personally i am the way i am because when i was 16 my dad sat me and my siblings down for an episode of star trek like he did every day and instead of a silly holodeck episode or a somber musing on the nature of humanity what we got. what we got was tom paris pulling his tongue out of his head and yelling PEPPERONI PIZZA before kidnapping the captain and turning them both into giant salamanders by flying too fast through space. and then they had babies, and the crew rescued them (sans babies) and turned them back into humans somehow, and no one ever spoke of it again. and i have known not a moment of peace since.