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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
The Way of the Warrior
The entire Alpha Quadrant has been threatened with deadly infiltration by the shape-shifting Founders of the Dominion. Already the Romulans and Cardassians have been decimated by the clandestine machinations of the Founders. Now the newly promoted Captain Benjamin Sisko of "Deep Space Nine" TM has another problem: a massive fleet of Klingon warships has arrived at DS9 on a secret mission. Unable to learn anything from an elusive Klingon general, Sisko turns to Lt. Commander Worf, formerly of the "Starship Enterprise" TM -- and the only Klingon in Starfleet -- to try and uncover the truth.
What Worf learns has a profound impact on the future of the Alpha Quadrant, and Sisko must risk destroying the Federation-Klingon alliance to prevent a full-scale war.
What Worf learns has a profound impact on the future of the Alpha Quadrant, and Sisko must risk destroying the Federation-Klingon alliance to prevent a full-scale war.
279 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 1, 1995
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Diane Carey
80 books122 followersDiane Carey also wrote the Distress Call 911 young adult series under the name D.L. Carey.
Diane Carey is primarily a science fiction author best known for her work in the Star Trek franchise. She has been the lead-off writer for two Star Trek spin-off book series: Star Trek The Next Generation with Star Trek: Ghost Ship, and the novelization of the Star Trek: Enterprise pilot, Broken Bow.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Carey
Diane Carey is primarily a science fiction author best known for her work in the Star Trek franchise. She has been the lead-off writer for two Star Trek spin-off book series: Star Trek The Next Generation with Star Trek: Ghost Ship, and the novelization of the Star Trek: Enterprise pilot, Broken Bow.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Carey
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November 9, 2017
Worf comes to DS9!
EVERYTHING IS BETTER WITH KLINGONS!
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a great TV show and it was visionary on its time since it was one of the first TV series to present long storyarcs even extending whole seasons, which is the standard procedure in almost all modern TV show nowadays (new millenium), but the change in media is hard and I guess that not all audience was prepared for the change, so the ratings of DS9 weren't doing that well and the producers were struggling to achieve the expected run of 7 seasons (why 7 seasons? Easy! Star Trek: The Next Generation had reached a 7 seasons' run setting a new standard to be considered a successful TV series and if DS9 wouldn't make at least the same, it would be troublesome) so...
...taking advantage that precisely TNG had ended and the cast was only doing theatrical movies with pleny of free time in between...
...the producers of DS9, specially Ronald D. Moore (awesome genius of TV, who began his career as junior producer at TNG and later to take charge of DS9, and of course later he produced Battlestar Galactica (Re-Imagined Version), Caprica, Helix and currently (2017) Outlander) thought that it could be beneficial for everybody to add the character of Worf from TNG to the crew of DS9 at the beginning of Season 4.
Because...
...obviously...
...everything is better with Klingons!
And the gimmick did its job since Worf was one of the elements who helped DS9 to reach the seventh season.
A curious trivia was that between season and without any explanation, suddenly Jadzia Dax was promoted to Lieutenant Commander. The reason? Easy! Worf was promoted to Lieutenant Commander during Star Trek: Generations and he arriving to DS9 would put him as the second most senior ranking Starfleet officer there, so... bam! Dax is a Lieutenant Commander now to keep at least one original character of the TV series with at least an equal rank than the new arriving Worf.
noH!
This book is the novelization of the season premiere of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine at its Fourth Season, where the Federation has been having troubles to keep the peace with the Cardassian Union and its new allies, the Dominion...
...therefore, the Klingon Empire, ally of the Federation, had a simple solution...
...declaring the war to the Cardassians!
However, the Federation isn't declared war yet and it wants to avoid it at all costs, the DS9 space station while is under Starfleet management, it is on Bajoran space, and Bajor isn't have been accepted yet into the Federation, so the political mess of the Klingons been in Bajoran space while battling Cardassian forces was definitely the kind of mess that Captain Benjamin Sisko wanted to deal in the smoothest way possible.
But, that's not the way of the Klingons...
...their only way is The Way of the Warrior .
The Klingon Chancellor Gowron sends a massive battle fleet under command of General Martok, to "help" to their Federation allies to beat the Cardassians, and if a huge bunch of Klingon battle cruisers weren't troublesome enough...
...remember that Klingons possess cloaking devices on theirs ships!
So, Sisko asked for the suitable "expert" on Klingons of Starfleet...
...Lt. Cmdr. Worf!
Who better to handle Klingons than a Klingon?!
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine would never be same anymore!
Qapla' !!!
EVERYTHING IS BETTER WITH KLINGONS!
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a great TV show and it was visionary on its time since it was one of the first TV series to present long storyarcs even extending whole seasons, which is the standard procedure in almost all modern TV show nowadays (new millenium), but the change in media is hard and I guess that not all audience was prepared for the change, so the ratings of DS9 weren't doing that well and the producers were struggling to achieve the expected run of 7 seasons (why 7 seasons? Easy! Star Trek: The Next Generation had reached a 7 seasons' run setting a new standard to be considered a successful TV series and if DS9 wouldn't make at least the same, it would be troublesome) so...
...taking advantage that precisely TNG had ended and the cast was only doing theatrical movies with pleny of free time in between...
...the producers of DS9, specially Ronald D. Moore (awesome genius of TV, who began his career as junior producer at TNG and later to take charge of DS9, and of course later he produced Battlestar Galactica (Re-Imagined Version), Caprica, Helix and currently (2017) Outlander) thought that it could be beneficial for everybody to add the character of Worf from TNG to the crew of DS9 at the beginning of Season 4.
Because...
...obviously...
...everything is better with Klingons!
And the gimmick did its job since Worf was one of the elements who helped DS9 to reach the seventh season.
A curious trivia was that between season and without any explanation, suddenly Jadzia Dax was promoted to Lieutenant Commander. The reason? Easy! Worf was promoted to Lieutenant Commander during Star Trek: Generations and he arriving to DS9 would put him as the second most senior ranking Starfleet officer there, so... bam! Dax is a Lieutenant Commander now to keep at least one original character of the TV series with at least an equal rank than the new arriving Worf.
noH!
This book is the novelization of the season premiere of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine at its Fourth Season, where the Federation has been having troubles to keep the peace with the Cardassian Union and its new allies, the Dominion...
...therefore, the Klingon Empire, ally of the Federation, had a simple solution...
...declaring the war to the Cardassians!
However, the Federation isn't declared war yet and it wants to avoid it at all costs, the DS9 space station while is under Starfleet management, it is on Bajoran space, and Bajor isn't have been accepted yet into the Federation, so the political mess of the Klingons been in Bajoran space while battling Cardassian forces was definitely the kind of mess that Captain Benjamin Sisko wanted to deal in the smoothest way possible.
But, that's not the way of the Klingons...
...their only way is The Way of the Warrior .
The Klingon Chancellor Gowron sends a massive battle fleet under command of General Martok, to "help" to their Federation allies to beat the Cardassians, and if a huge bunch of Klingon battle cruisers weren't troublesome enough...
...remember that Klingons possess cloaking devices on theirs ships!
So, Sisko asked for the suitable "expert" on Klingons of Starfleet...
...Lt. Cmdr. Worf!
Who better to handle Klingons than a Klingon?!
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine would never be same anymore!
Qapla' !!!
October 31, 2020
This is a novelization of the two-hour fourth season opener of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The book surprised me by being better than I expected. But I always especially enjoyed the Worf stories on the Star Trek Next Generation shows, and these episodes tell the story of Worf's transfer to Deep Space Nine. There was plenty of well-paced action, as the relations between the Federation, the Klingons, and the Cardassians hung in the balance. The translation from screenplay to novel was done reasonably well. But still, it is just a novelization, not a new creation by the author.
November 12, 2016
2.5 stars
January 25, 2026
The novelisation of the two-part season-opener for Season Four, originally written by Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe.
When a massive Klingon fleet arrives at Deep Space Nine, Captain Sisko and his crew have to try to discover what their volatile allies are up to. What they learn brings open war to the sector and threatens the long-held peace treaty between the Klingons and the Federation.
This is easily my favourite DS9 story, capturing the tension of the threat posed by the Dominion and its shapeshifting infiltrators, as well as bringing a focus onto Star Trek's most iconic alien species, the Klingons. The tensions between the Federation and the Klingons are nicely embodied by Worf, who joins the DS9 crew for the first time here (this is shortly after the Enterprise-D was destroyed in Generations).
Novelisations have the benefit of being able to add in scenes that couldn't be included in the onscreen version, as well as offer insight into the inner thoughts of the characters in a way that can't be done visually. It is interesting, then, that this is the first time that I've encountered a novelisation where those things are an active hinderance.
By showing us various scenes about the Klingon vessels it demystifies what's going on with them and robs the investigations of Sisko and his crew of its impact when the murky intentions of the Klingons are revealed.
We also get a great deal of the inner monologues of Sisko and Worf, both of whom are lessened as characters by Carey's strange interpretations of their intentions. For instance, amid dialogue of Sisko being empathetic and comradely with his crew, the author arbitrarily assigns him thoughts totally contrary to what he's saying or, in a couple of cases, has him thinking that his crew should shut up. It made Benjamin Sisko, a character I know very well thank you, feel unfamiliar.
A great story, somewhat spoiled by a misguided attempt to reinterpret it for the novelisation.
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When a massive Klingon fleet arrives at Deep Space Nine, Captain Sisko and his crew have to try to discover what their volatile allies are up to. What they learn brings open war to the sector and threatens the long-held peace treaty between the Klingons and the Federation.
This is easily my favourite DS9 story, capturing the tension of the threat posed by the Dominion and its shapeshifting infiltrators, as well as bringing a focus onto Star Trek's most iconic alien species, the Klingons. The tensions between the Federation and the Klingons are nicely embodied by Worf, who joins the DS9 crew for the first time here (this is shortly after the Enterprise-D was destroyed in Generations).
Novelisations have the benefit of being able to add in scenes that couldn't be included in the onscreen version, as well as offer insight into the inner thoughts of the characters in a way that can't be done visually. It is interesting, then, that this is the first time that I've encountered a novelisation where those things are an active hinderance.
By showing us various scenes about the Klingon vessels it demystifies what's going on with them and robs the investigations of Sisko and his crew of its impact when the murky intentions of the Klingons are revealed.
We also get a great deal of the inner monologues of Sisko and Worf, both of whom are lessened as characters by Carey's strange interpretations of their intentions. For instance, amid dialogue of Sisko being empathetic and comradely with his crew, the author arbitrarily assigns him thoughts totally contrary to what he's saying or, in a couple of cases, has him thinking that his crew should shut up. It made Benjamin Sisko, a character I know very well thank you, feel unfamiliar.
A great story, somewhat spoiled by a misguided attempt to reinterpret it for the novelisation.
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July 31, 2024
A novel of an episode. I love Sisko's statement. "A warrior mentality is a luxury of success. The fighting habit can't be instinct, or there wouldn't be Klingons. You'd have all killed each other a long time ago, or just died out because nobody bothered to grow food or build shelter. A martial culture that desires more than anything to live and die in battle is just not going to survive. Somebody has to deal with the mundane. Somebody has to grow food, somebody has to make clothing-if your whole culture's fighting, you'd better be able to steal those things from someone else. If you can't do that, you die. If you run up on a group of tough farmers and weavers, you die. Like the Vikings of old Earth..to them, the only way to make it to Valhalla in the next life was to die in battle. So they could only survive as long as they could steal from others. Eventually, the others just start saying no, and figure out ways to outsmart the power of raw strength. In case you hadn't noticed the Vikings didn't make it into modern civilization."
July 14, 2025
At one point in the story, Dukat has to evacuate the Detapa Council due to the Klingon's invasion but they don't trust him and question if the Klingon force heading for Cardassia Prime is even real and suspect he's attempting a military coup and this turns into a running gun battle between their guards and his troops where he is forced to "evacuate" them at gun point and this stretches on for nearly 20 pages that it's almost farcical.
That's my issue with the novel, the added material doesn't feel genuine or it's feels off tonally with the tv episode, some of it feels like filler.
That's my issue with the novel, the added material doesn't feel genuine or it's feels off tonally with the tv episode, some of it feels like filler.
June 13, 2025
#22 - well this one was okay. it's admittedly been a while since i've seen the episode but the delta flyers podcast hit this recently so i figured i'd give it a quick runthrough.
we get worf! we get snark from dukat and garak!
but we somehow DON'T get the root beer scene, and i might be docking a full star for just that reason.
this scene is that good; it's possibly the best thing in the entire franchise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VhSm...
we get worf! we get snark from dukat and garak!
but we somehow DON'T get the root beer scene, and i might be docking a full star for just that reason.
this scene is that good; it's possibly the best thing in the entire franchise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VhSm...
October 27, 2017
Didn't overly care for the additions to this novelization. Most times I appreciate what the other brings but these ones just seemed more like padding than anything necessary and would have appreciated a little more what was going on in Worf's head from the loss of the Enterprise than I got. There was some there but not enough.
March 28, 2024
How do you fight something that can change into anything?
The Klingons just believe in killing anything suspicious in the area and that causes problems and tensions with Starfleet so Worf is brought in. The ambiguity of his situation is a major plot element.
But are a certain faction of Klingons using Changelings as an excuse to attack?
The Klingons just believe in killing anything suspicious in the area and that causes problems and tensions with Starfleet so Worf is brought in. The ambiguity of his situation is a major plot element.
But are a certain faction of Klingons using Changelings as an excuse to attack?
July 10, 2017
Reliving a great episode
It's always fun to revisit old episodes and this is another great written edition with the addition of the thoughts and feelings you can't include in a tv show.
It's always fun to revisit old episodes and this is another great written edition with the addition of the thoughts and feelings you can't include in a tv show.
August 29, 2023
Novelization of the episode(s) of the same name from the TV series, the start of season 4 when Worf joins the cast.
A good story, and the writing is well-done, but like all novelizations, if you've seen the episode, you won't really gain anything from reading this.
A good story, and the writing is well-done, but like all novelizations, if you've seen the episode, you won't really gain anything from reading this.
January 4, 2025
I really enjoyed this read and then watching DS9 Season 4 episode 1 after..you can see how reading is so much more enriching than watching the show. I love ST and often do rewatches, but to me, the ST Lit world is so enjoyable... I hope authors continue the story.
January 7, 2023
Well worth a read. Adds extra detail to the televised story - especially a classic scene where Garak is attacked by the Klingons in his shop.
July 26, 2011
It's by far the best novelization of a "Star Trek" episode or film...and it completely lives up to the broadcast version. Diane Carey seems positively inspired by the millieu of DS9...and who can blame her. I read this prior to seeing "Way of the Warrior" on TV...and neither version disappointed in the slightest.
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July 31, 2011A bit heavy to read. The extra bits that add detail to the events of the tv series episode are usually the best thing about these books but this time they felt lind of forced upon it. They weren't an effortless part of the story.
August 12, 2012
Having never read a Star Trek book this was given to me as a present. I love the tv series, but approached the book with cynicism. I love being proved wrong. Thoroughly enjoyed the story and writing. Is it a classic piece of literature? Of course not. Is it a great fun read? Most definitely.
August 4, 2011
Felt like a DS9 episode. If you liked the show read the book. Fun read. Started and finished book while in line for rides at Cedar Point. Not worth buying . Get this one from your library.
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December 8, 2013Novelization of episodes with screen play writers credited
April 6, 2014
Very well executed novelization of the season 4 opener - great read!
June 2, 2016
For a novelization I loved this book! The author was able to make you feel like you were watching the episode for real. Now I want to break out my ting, ds9, and voyager DVDs and binge watch!
August 29, 2017
So this is apparently a novelization of the DS9 episode where Worf joins the show. I do not remember it at all (I mean, I remember that he joined it, but...). Then I looked on imdb and realized it aired over !!20 YEARS AGO!! No wonder I don't remember it.
That being said, good book. Particularly enjoyed the Worf character development as he struggles with his responsibilities to Starfleet versus his Klingon heritage.
That being said, good book. Particularly enjoyed the Worf character development as he struggles with his responsibilities to Starfleet versus his Klingon heritage.
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