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In the documentary What We Left Behind, former DS9 show runner gathered some of the old staff writers and came up with a theoretical idea for the first episode of an eigth season to Deep Space Nine, set 20 years after season 7 ended, to account for how much time had passed.  

The exercise was never meant to be canon, instead it was meant to give viewers a glimpse into how the writers' room worked and to be a fun reunion for them. 

The Star Trek wiki, Memory Alpha, captured how the writers' imagined first episode of season 8 would have played out.