Everything about Tavi's storyline is so dreadfully cliche. I find him completely uninteresting ... I liked some of the background characters, though, and was basically sticking around for them, more than him.

The Marat ... well ... best not to go there. I hated the way they were presented and the way the Alerans treated them.

I think there is definitely an effect to fandom that makes you stick with mediocre canon in order to share it with other people. And there have been some things I think I *could* have been really fannish about but there just wasn't enough of a fandom to support them (like "Dead Like Me").