Still here, still reading and enjoying pretty much everything, the "slow" character development stuff as much as the "fast" action scenes. Even though, as has been the case several times before, I have only a by-fandom-osmosis knowledge of about half the source material. :)

... it's been just about 25 years, hasn't it? And yes, you've improved considerably with practice - though the old stuff is still fun to read sometimes, too. Not unlike classic Trek or Who, even though the sets are cardboard and the FX are cheap. ;)