Heart of the Warrior

[Saratoga NX-3842]

I know, I know, it's a pretty lousy book.But question: in the opening paragraph it starts with Sisko's log: Station Log, Captain Benjamin Sisko, Arconina.
What the hell is Arconina?

 

[toughlittleship]

I noticed that too. I really like that book though, its one of very few of the DS9 numbered novels to do anything with DS9s mythology, specifically the Founders. There are a few mistakes, like Eddington being called Roddington.

 

[EEE]

Coincidentally, I just finished this book last night! Overall, I found it enjoyable. More so than 1 1/2 of the previous numbered books. In spite of some "problems" (for want of a better word which if I had, I could write my own books!).

What I never really figured out was the meaning of the title. I must've drifted off to sleep when the connection was made. It also had the feel of a Wild, Wild West TV Show episode, in that hero a/b/c was in trouble when the commercials started, only to be rescued/solved in the first 10 seconds of the next act.

Oddly, enough I'm enjoying the DS9 books overall, much more than I did TOS books over the decades. But that might be a side effect of the decades that have passed, or a lower expectation? Perhaps I've learned to ignore the fact that every single Trek book I've read over the past 40 or so years, has had at least one major problem or mischaracterization or whatnot. No matter, I am enjoying them overall.

 

[Stevil2001]

If I remember right, it was supposed to have a different title initially, but that was changed to something with "warrior" in it because it was the first original DS9 novel to utilize Worf.

 

[Defcon]

If I remember right, it was supposed to have a different title initially, but that was changed to something with "warrior" in it because it was the first original DS9 novel to utilize Worf.

I think it was supposed to be called The Trojan Spaceship.

 

[Christopher]

^^Yeah, they forgot to change the original title on the Historian's Note page when they changed it everywhere else.

The story really makes very little use of Worf, and the title has nothing to do with the plot. But it was the first DS9 novel with Worf in it, so they played him up with the title and cover painting.

 

[DS9forever]

Still no idea what Arconina means?

 

[Christopher]

I know, I know, it's a pretty lousy book.But question: in the opening paragraph it starts with Sisko's log: Station Log, Captain Benjamin Sisko, Arconina.
What the hell is Arconina?

Ummm... Bajoran for "supplemental"?

 

[Leto_II]

I think it was supposed to be called The Trojan Spaceship.

Also, in this novel's "Historian's Note" at the very beginning, the original "Trojan Spaceship"-title gets used, instead of the final, revised one (slipped through the editing-process, no doubt). Always got a chuckle out of that one.

 

[Hey Missy]

I don't remember much about this book, but only the part where some Jem'Hadar and a Vorta(?) consider Odo to be a "false god" and try to kill him (which contradicts the series' statement that it is part of the Jem'Hadar and Vorta genetic makeup to revere and serve any changeling), which I thought was odd.

 

[tomswift2002]

I always found the plot of this story was very similar to the Season 6 episode where they fly the Jem'Hadar ship.

 

[Avro Arrow]

According to Google Translate, "Arconina" is "Marconi" in Malagasy.

So there you go.

Ummm... Bajoran for "supplemental"?

Or as another possibility, maybe "commanding"?