There is a series of DS9 books from one of the shows writers but it isn’t canon and is contradicted by more recent content.

It’s my favorite series. Gun to my head, I’ll take it over TNG, but barely. Diverse cast of characters, great stories. Even when the dominion war came along we still got plenty of monster of the week episodes. And of course, DS9 had something no others series can come close to: Garak.

Don’t feel bad. You can just do what the rest of us do and watch it over and over again for the rest of your life. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve watched DS9, TNG, VOY, and TOS. Even ENT and TAS. dozens and dozens. I even put on episodes when I go to sleep as background noise.

For ever and ever…

I need to watch DS9 again…

Well, there is a crowdfunded documentary (which I even funded years ago) whose name is based on the last episode of the show “What we left behind” and where you can see interviews with the cast and the original writers imagine what an eight season might have looked like.

It’s nice and they remastered several scenes of the show in high definition, so it’s worth a watch.

Then you can rewatch it over and over again. I’m doing my third rewatch right now. I have only rewatched TNG once and no other series is as amazing as DS9 to me (though I have rewatched several individual episodes across all series)

I know Andrew Robinson has written a novel about Garak, A stitch in time, which I understand is well regarded and Garak is such an interesting character that sooner or later I’ll check it out.

We feel your loss, but you should celebrate because it was so well put together and it had a charm no other series really had.