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:''In [[2422]], in a [[alternate timeline]], [[Starfleet]] Captain Nog visited his friend Jake in [[New Orleans]] on [[Earth]]. This visit was the result of an accident onboard the ''Defiant'' in which an inversion of [[Bajoran wormhole|the wormhole]] caused Benjamin Sisko's temporal signature to change and dematerialized him. When Jake solved this anomaly, the alternate timeline, and Captain Nog, ceased to exist. ''([[DS9]]: "[[The Visitor]]")'''
 
:''In [[2422]], in a [[alternate timeline]], [[Starfleet]] Captain Nog visited his friend Jake in [[New Orleans]] on [[Earth]]. This visit was the result of an accident onboard the ''Defiant'' in which an inversion of [[Bajoran wormhole|the wormhole]] caused Benjamin Sisko's temporal signature to change and dematerialized him. When Jake solved this anomaly, the alternate timeline, and Captain Nog, ceased to exist. ''([[DS9]]: "[[The Visitor]]")'''
   
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:''Nog was also featured in [[Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (comic)]], a [[comic book]] series published by [[Marvel Comics]], which followed his early days at the academy as part of Omega Squad.''
 
===See also===
 
===See also===
 
*[[DS9 recurring character appearances|List of appearances]]
 
*[[DS9 recurring character appearances|List of appearances]]

Revision as of 11:10, 5 September 2005

Lieutenant Nog in 2375
Gender: Male
Species: Ferengi
Rank: Lieutenant J.G.
Born: 2353
Mother: Prinadora
Father: Rom
Actor: Aron Eisenberg

Nog was a Ferengi born in 2353 and the only son of Rom.

As a young Ferengi, Nog was expected to become a merchant and to acquire as much wealth as possible, but his father's job on a Bajoran space station gave him the opportunity to meet other cultures and to make new friends. This would eventually lead to a Starfleet career.

Early Federation-DS9 Years

In 2369 Nog was living on Deep Space Nine when the Federation started helping Bajor to repair it after the Cardassians ended the occupation of Bajor. On the day the new Commander Benjamin Sisko arrived on the station, Nog, who was helping a thief on the Promenade, was apprehended by Odo, the station's Chief of Security. Nog's capture made him a bargaining chip when Sisko wanted Quark to stay on the station and keep his bar open. (DS9: "Emissary (episode)") On the station he met Jake Sisko, Commander Sisko's son. Because there were only a few children onboard DS9, Jake and Nog spent a lot of time together and soon became close friends and would have many adventures and mis-adventures together. Much of their time was spent on the Promenade where they watched the passengers disembarking. Benjamin Sisko was not happy with his son's friendship with Nog, but there was little he could do about it. (DS9: "The Nagus")

Early in their relationship Nog and Jake released some insects onto the Promenade which made people turn blue for a short moment when stung. When caught by Odo, they were brought before Commander Sisko for disciplinary action. At the time Keiko O'Brien was lobbying for a school on the station and Sisko, who saw the school as an opportunity to keep the juveniles busy, agreed. Nog's father needed to be convinced by Keiko to send his son to a school. (DS9: "A Man Alone") Although Nog was reluctant to attend school at first, he was encouraged by Jake to do so, not the least because Jake had started to teach him to read and write.

Nog's father, Rom, worked for his uncle Quark as a waiter in his bar, Quark's Place. Although Nog told his father several times he could do better, Rom always dreamed of taking over the bar from Quark. Perhaps because Nog's mother, Prinadora, had left him and his father several years earlier in favor of a richer man. (DS9: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume?")

When the Bajoran factions Paqu and Navot were negotiating an agreement on DS9, Nog saw Varis, the Paqu negotiator, who was an attractive young girl, and became instantly infatuated with her. Because he was reluctant to meet her, he asked Jake if he could arrange it. Upon meeting Nog with Jake, Varis shared her frustrations about the ongoing negotiations and Nog offered her a suggestion how the dispute could be solved to the satisfaction of both parties. Although Nog did not become romantically involved with her, he did get a kiss on his cheek when Varis left DS9 after successfully finishing the negotiations. (DS9: "The Storyteller")

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Noh-Jay Consortium negotiating

In the same year, Nog and Jake formed the Noh-Jay Consortium for the purpose of carrying out a business deal with his uncle. They discovered that Quark had a huge amount of Yamok sauce which he could not sell, so they tried to sell it for five bars of gold pressed latinum to a Lissepian freighter captain. However, the Lissepian captain convinced them to trade the sauce for self-sealing stem bolts. They agreed but the transaction left them with the new problem of trying to unload the stem bolts. Once again, rather than sell the bolts they were talked into a trade, this time for seven tessipates of land on Bajor. Jake was enthusiastic about the arrangement as he considered land to be a solid investment. Nog, however, was discouraged because he did not think they would find any buyers for "dirt". They soon learned, through Quark, that the Bajoran government was trying to buy this land for a civic expansion. Quark, eager to get his hands on land which he believed he could sell for a premium, was astonished to learn his nephew was in possession of the land because he had not believed Nog "had the lobes" to take such a crafty position ahead of market demand. Nog and Jake agreed to sell the land to Quark for five bars of gold pressed latinum who in turn sold it to the government. (DS9: "Progress") In 2370, Nog was evacuated for a short time from DS9 because of the threat of Bajoran incursion. (DS9: "The Siege") He also was attacked by Tumak when he sprayed some foul smelling fluid on him. (DS9: "Sanctuary")

In 2372, Nog's uncle Quark received a shuttle from his cousin Gaila and he decided to bring Nog, accompanied by his father, to Starfleet Academy. When they were close to Earth, something went wrong. After crash-landing, they found themselves in Roswell, New Mexico in the year 1947. On a military base they were observed and thought to be Martians. When they repaired their universal translator, Quark tried to make a profit from the situation. Things started going badly and Nog tried to bluff their way out of the situation by telling the military personnel that they were the first of an invasion force. Fortunately for them, they were helped with their escape and were able to return to their own time period. (DS9: "Little Green Men")

Contact with the Dominion and Starfleet career

When Nog was asked to go on a camping trip in the Gamma Quadrant with Jake, he could not say no to the invitation but was less than pleased when his uncle Quark insisted on coming with him. After they landed on a planet, Jake and Nog were sent into the woods. When they returned to the campsite, they discovered that Sisko and Quark were gone. When they were unable to find them, they decided to take the runabout and return to DS9 but encountered problems when they realized the controls of the runabout were secured. Nog told Jake that he could circumvent the security protocols but he only partially succeeded and was able to restore attitude control but not warp capability. While being chased by Jem'Hadar, they were located by Miles O'Brien, piloting another runabout. He safely returned them to DS9. (DS9: "The Jem'Hadar")


It was arround this time that Nog decided that he wanted to be the first Ferengi in Starfleet. Because the Ferengi were not members of the Federation at the time his application would have to be endorsed by a Starfleet officer and Nog asked Captain Sisko if he would support his application to Starfleet Academy. Before Sisko agreed, he wanted Nog to prove that he was serious about the endevour. He assigned Nog several trying, and sometimes trivial tasks, to test his dedication. To his surprise Nog persisted and Sisko was glad to give him his full endorsement. During his time on the Academy, Nog was a frequent visitor of Sisko's, a Cajun restaurant owned by Joseph Sisko in New Orleans.

In 2372, Cadet Nog was stationed on DS9 where he helped Lieutenant Dax and Major Kira descramble a recorded message in the hope of solving the mystery of who was killing the surviving members of the Shakaar Resistance Cell. (DS9: "The Darkness and the Light")

In 2373, Nog took part in a mission to retrieve components from Empok Nor to repair DS9. During this mission, two stasis chambers containing Cardassians in them were accidentally activated. When the two Cardassians destroyed the runabout that had brought Nog and Miles O'Brien to Empok Nor, and killed Crewman Boq'ta, he and the Chief were the only ones to confront Garak, who had been infected by the same psychotropic drug which had influenced the two other Cardassians. Garak captured Nog and he watched as O'Brien tried to overpower Garak. O'Brien only succeeded because he rigged a phaser to explode, knocking Garak unconscious. (DS9: "Empok Nor")


When Jake wanted to gave his father a present of a Willie Mays Baseball card, Nog was talked into putting up his lifetime gold pressed latinum earnings to purchase it. But alas they were outbid by Dr Elias Giger, who seemed to have an ulterior motive. He wanted to trade the card in return for some equipment he needed, which only Nog and Jake could get. Hearing what Dr. Giger wanted, they thought he was crazy but nevertheless they agreed and in the end they were able to present a Willie Mays baseball card in mint-condition to Jake's father. (DS9: "In the Cards")

That same year his father Rom married Leeta. (DS9: "Call to Arms")

In 2374, after the outbreak of the war between the Federation and the Dominion Nog took part in the raid to destroy the major production facility of Ketracel-white inside Dominion territory. Although the mission was a success, the captured dominion ship was severely damaged and had to make an emergency landing on a remote planet, leaving them seventeen years from the nearest starbase. (DS9:"A Time to Stand") While Nog and Garak were searching for food, they were captured by Jem'Hadar soldiers and brought to their wounded Vorta leader. Garak told them that they had a doctor with them and they were exhanged as hostages for Captain Sisko and Doctor Bashir. In the end they had to fight the Jem'Hadar because the Ketracel-white they depended on had run out and their Vorta leader could no longer control them. During their last attack, all the Jem'Hadar were killed. (DS9: "Rocks and Shoals")

In the same year his grandmother Ishka was taken prisoner by the Dominion and Nog was recruited by Quark to lead a rescue expedition with his fellow Ferengi. They succeeded and even took a prisoner back to DS9. (DS9: "The Magnificent Ferengi")

On stardate 51825.4, Nog was en route to Ferenginar with Jake when they were attacked by Jem'Hadar. Suddenly they were beamed aboard the USS Valiant a Defiant-class starship. Nog recognized the crew operating the Valiant as Red Squad, an elite group of cadets from Starfleet Academy. Their twenty-year-old Captain, Tim Watters, told him that the rest of the crew had been killed and that he intended to complete the Valiant's mission, gathering data on a new Dominion battleship. Nog was enthusiatic and joined the crew as Chief Engineer. He adjusted the Valiant's warp capabilities, as he had seen O'Brien do on the Defiant. When Watters wanted to attack the battleship, Jake told Nog that it was a suicide mission. Nog in turn informed Watters who had Jake confined to the brig. During the battle, the Valiant sustained heavy damage and only Nog and Dorian Collins were left alive. They released Jake from the brig and used an escape pod to leave the Valiant before it exploded. They were later picked up by the USS Defiant. (DS9: "Valiant")

In 2375 Nog was asked by Captain Sisko to participate in a game of baseball, in order to fulfill a bet Sisko had made with Captain Solok of the USS T'Kumbra. A team comprised of Nog, Worf, Kira, Ezri, Bashir, O'Brien, Quark, Leeta and Nog's father Rom took on the Vulcan baseball team. By the end of the first training session, most of the team members were in need of medical attention. Despite Sisko's enthusiasm, they lost the game by a score of 10-1. (DS9: "Take Me Out to the Holosuite")

Nog's wheeling and dealing helped him out when he offered Chief O'Brien his help in fixing the graviton stabilizer. The Chief was in need of parts and Nog promised him that he could get them in exchange for a return favor. (DS9: "Treachery, Faith, and the Great River")

During the Siege of AR-558, Nog lost his leg after fierce fighting with Jem'Hadar soldiers, who outnumbered Starfleet forces three-to-one. When Nog was recuperating in a makeshift infirmary, Jem'Hadar burst in but Quark managed to kill them, saving his nephew from certain death. (DS9: "The Siege of AR-558") When he returned to DS9, Nog was still recovering from his injuries and, although his leg was replaced by a biosynthetic one, he was still struggling to cope emotionally and physically with his wound. Because he did not want to be helped by anyone he took his medical leave in one of the holosuites of his uncle, hiding in a 1962 Las Vegas club of singer Vic Fontaine. When he found Jake and his date Kesha in Vic's lounge, he was upset and in an angry outburst, he punched Jake, whereupon Vic threw Nog out of his club. Ezri visited Nog to persuade him to leave the holosuite but he refused. He even threatened to resign his Starfleet commission if she tried to make him leave the holosuite. While Ezri observed him, she noticed that he had made progress. He no longer seemed to limp or need to use his cane. When his father and Leeta visited him in the club, he was even happy. Congratulating Vic with his accomplishments with regards to Nog, Ezri let him know it was time for Nog to leave the holosuite. When Vic told Nog he had to leave he protested but to no avail. In the end, Vic convinced Nog that it was better for him to leave and rejoin the real world. Nog thanked him and asked his uncle Quark to keep the holoprogram running for as long as Vic wanted. (DS9: "It's Only a Paper Moon") Later that year Nog offered his help when Bashir and O'Brien discovered a 'jack-in-the-box' in the Fontaine holo program. The program had generated new characters who took control of the casino and kicked Vic out. In a elaborate scheme which involved almost the entire senior staff of DS9. Nog used his superb Ferengi hearing to crack Frankie's safe so Odo could steal the money that Frankie was supposed to deliver to his boss Carl Zeemo. By doing so they compromised Frankie, upon which Carl escorted Frankie out of the casino, making it Vic's again. (DS9: "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang") Nog took part in the Second Battle of Chin'toka as a member of the USS Defiant crew, (DS9: "The Changing Face of Evil") and when the Dominion War ended in 2375, Nog was promoted to Lieutenant in one of Benjamin Sisko's last official acts as the commanding officer of DS9. (DS9: "What You Leave Behind")

In 2422, in a alternate timeline, Starfleet Captain Nog visited his friend Jake in New Orleans on Earth. This visit was the result of an accident onboard the Defiant in which an inversion of the wormhole caused Benjamin Sisko's temporal signature to change and dematerialized him. When Jake solved this anomaly, the alternate timeline, and Captain Nog, ceased to exist. (DS9: "The Visitor")
Nog was also featured in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (comic), a comic book series published by Marvel Comics, which followed his early days at the academy as part of Omega Squad.

See also

  • List of appearances