Wait ... Cooper wrote Doppelganger? Admittedly, I really don't pay a whole lot of attention to this kind of stuff (and your methodology cracks me up -- because I have *totally* been that anal about certain things, especially whole collections of character-related data from certain shows when I was a teen). But Doppelganger is probably one of my favorite episodes of any show EVER, so ... I really must give some love to any writer who wrote that. (And, uh, Tao of Rodney is one of my OTHER favorite episodes of any show ever. I AM SO EASY.)

I can recognize good writing, certainly. But as far as fannish love -- that's a whole separate thing for me, I think. And it's totally subjective. In fact, I think the things I love most as a fan can't be well written (well, can't be *that* well written) because the plot tropes I love the most just aren't really good writing choices. XD