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===Apocrypha===
The {{novel}} series ''[[Star Trek: Terok Nor]]'' tells the story of the Bajoran Occupation. According to this series, the Cardassians first establish a presence on Bajor in [[2318]]. Over the next ten years, the Cardassians use the pretext of an alliance with Bajor to slowly gain influence over the government of the planet and establish facilities. The Occupation formally starts in [[2328]]. Following {{e|Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night}}, Terok Nor is depicted as being built in [[2346]].

The anniversary series ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Millennium]]'' includes a look at the events surrounding the Day of Withdrawal (although characters note that it actually took Cardassia over a week to completely abandon Bajor), exploring Odo, Garak, and Quark's memories of the time period in question. The series also reveals Terok Nor was left intact to become DS9 through a [[temporal paradox]]; the Cardassians had intended to destroy the station after their departure, but when the {{USS|Defiant|2370}} crew of [[2375]] travel back to the time of withdrawal, the future Garak uses the opportunity to give his past self the [[command code]]s necessary to deactivate the station's [[self-destruct]] system before the past Garak erases his memory of meeting his future self.