Thanks for reading, and I hope you'll continue to enjoy it!
I wouldn't try to compare myself to Una McCormack, whose work I really respect--though some of my work uses similar underpinnings (especially through the work of Andrew "Garak" Robinson), I am definitely starting to feel that my Cardassia and hers are not one and the same. I enjoy and look up to her vision of Cardassia even though it isn't all the same as mine. Which is fine...that's what fanfic is for.