 Quick Facts:
- Son to Rom, nephew to Quark,
grandson to Ishka
- First Ferengi in
Starfleet, quickly promoted to rank of ensign during the
Dominion War, and to lieutenant in "What You Leave Behind"
- Best friend to Jake Sisko
Complete Bios:
FROM
STARTREK.COM
Although a
first-year Starfleet cadet, Nog occupies a special place in
history as the first Ferengi ever to enter the Academy, and to
date he has shouldered that potentially awkward stigma well.
Reportedly, Nog credits his remarkably open multi-culturalism
to his friendship with Jake Sisko, son of the commander of his
longtime home at Deep Space Nine and Nog's own sponsor as a
non-Federation applicant. However, Nog has also worked hard to
mature beyond his former panicky reaction to a crisis, his
occasional bout of Ferengi racism, his petty criminal record
and his disdain for scholarship. His earlier school record was
mediocre to poor, but that stemmed in part from his longtime
illiteracy and his father's early reluctance to allow his
attending the "hew-man" school taught by a woman, a
threat repeated when the visiting Grand Nagus was aghast. In
the end, he and Jake Sisko were Keiko O'Brien's last two
pupils when she was forced to close the DS9 school.
Aside from a spat
or two, especially involving dating when their cultures
clashed as young teens, Nog prided himself on he and Jake's
cross-cultural friendship and their survival of their fathers'
initial opposition to each other. Sisko especially took a dim
view of his influence on Jake with the traditional Ferengi
view of women, and first met both Nog and his Uncle Quark
after the boy was caught stealing with a Markalian thief from
DS9's damaged assay office. The two boys met out of mutual
loneliness and eventually did everything together, from joint
science projects to girl-watching, playing cards and Dom-jot,
and avoiding Constable Odo's rounds. Baseball, though, was not
a passion he shared with the human.
 Like his father,
Nog is good with his hands and worked for years for his Uncle
Quark's bar and casino on DS9. Although he was saddened and
angered by Quark's longtime humiliation of Rom, the teen was
happy to see his father's rise to assertiveness by the time of
his Academy admission. In fact, when pushed by his would-be
sponsor Sisko, Nog admitted his application stemmed from his
vow not to repeat his father's mistake of not pursuing his
aptitudes, trying instead to be a "good Ferengi" in
business without really having the lobes for it. It was he who
kept his messy father's quarters cleaned up as well.
Nog marked his
native rite of reaching adulthood in 2371, on the day before
stardate 48521.5, and selected Sisko as his role model and
purchased apprenticeship mentor in order to be sponsored for
Starfleet, offering him his life savings per Ferengi tradition
and leaving it anyway when it's not required. He passed all
four days of tests to make the Starfleet Academy Preparatory
Program that year — despite his uncle's sabotage of one
test, uncovered and reported by his father.
Cadet Nog reported
that he arrived for his first academy term in 2371 after an
accidental time-travel trip back to Earth's 1947, thanks to a
sabotaged ship repaid to Quark by his Cousin Gaila and a
contraband kemacite cargo load. After Nog's traditional
Ferengi sale of personal possessions on DS9 to finance his
future, O'Brien and Bashir gave him a guidebook to Earth,
where he realized Gabriel Bell looks a lot like Sisko; his
knowledge of Earth and its history helped win the trapped
Ferengi their escape and a trip back to their correct time.
In 2374 Nog became
an acting Starfleet ensign following a battlefield commission
during the Dominion war. Nog was hurt in battle at station
AR-558 during a conflict with the Jem'Hadar and lost the use
of one of his legs. Although his leg was replaced with a
bionic one, his emotional scars were deep. Nog was later
recommended for promotion to lieutenant by Captain Sisko
following his actions in the Dominion war.
Nog enjoys Trixian
bubble juice and fresh tube grubs, often beaming in to Sisko's
restaurant in New Orleans to enjoy them.
First
Seen: "Emissary, Part I"
Last Seen: "What You Leave Behind"
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