The Heart of the Warrior

{{short description|Book by John Gregory Betancourt}}

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| name = The Heart of the Warrior

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| image = File:The_Heart_of_the_Warrior.jpg

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| author = John Gregory Betancourt

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| country = United States

| language = English

| series = Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

| genre = Science fiction novel

| publisher = Pocket Books

| release_date = October 1996

| media_type = Print (paperback)

| pages = 274 pp

| isbn = 0-671-88560-X

| isbn_note = (first edition, paperback)

| oclc = 31315098

| preceded_by = Time's Enemy

| followed_by = Saratoga

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The Heart of the Warrior is a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel written by John Gregory Betancourt.

In Voyages of Imagination, Betancourt remarked, "Worf has always been one of my favorite characters, and I wanted to write a book about him but set in the Dominion, where he would find a challenge to his hand-to-hand combat skills. Unfortunately, later seasons of DS9 developed the Founders and Dominion enough that my book is, ah, retroactively contradictory to the official universe in a number of places. Which is too bad because I think it's my best Trek novel."{{cite book |last=Ayers |first=Jeff |title=Voyages of Imagination |publisher=Pocket Books |year=2006 |pages=240–241 |isbn=1-4165-0349-8}}