#ensign nog

[best-star-trek-character]

Round Three

Lt. Cmdr. Worf vs. Nog!

Lt. Cmdr. Worf

Nog

Voting ended onMay 7, 2023

[skermit]

Plush Nog from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 🧡

Nog means so much to me as he goes through one of the biggest character arcs of anyone - going from a scared, petty thief and juvenile delinquent to a model Starfleet officer to dealing with the trauma of war.

Time taken: 13 hours 30 min

[Originally posted on IG 5 November 2022]

[elemental-queen-writes]

Egg Nog or something idk

[frecklenog]

hey. don’t cry. four FIVE fics in the hugh/nog tag on ao3, okay?

[hellpmeimobsessed]

Laser Tag With The Crew (And Some Guests) Of: DS9

Ben and Jake team up so Ben can teach Jake how to shoot, get behind cover, etc. And they collectively get their asses handed to them but Ben insists he teaches him.

Nog eventually manages to steal Jake away and they find a loose panel and camp there; they're disqualified after Odo finds them because he turned into a mouse so he can keep an eye on things and Odo finds Nog's range on his gun is tampered with so there's no limit to how far away he can shoot someone, even through walls.

Odo hides by transforming into multiple things like the panels in the room (if you could see it in the light, it appears slightly thicker then the ones beside it) and small animals to make sure no one's cheating or doing anything dangerous like using a real phaser, or so no one camps. He comes out of hiding only to shoot Quark and Kira.

Jake actually learns quite a bit, both while in the game and outside of it; he catches onto people's patterns and habits and memorizes them for next game.

Julian and Garak get way too into it, with Julian dramatically telling people to 'hold on!' and 'don't you quit on me!'. Jadzia and Kira die of laughter when he does.

Garak 'watches Julian back' to make sure 'the patient gets out safely, and so do you', also makes jokes like 'I think you might have to amputate, doctor, that wound doesn't look good' and 'it's no use, we have to go!' to which Julian pretends to make a fuss like 'I won't leave them!' It's fantastic to watch unfold.

Dukat gets ganged up on by everyone; he has to pass through an intersection and everyone jumps out and tags him all at once; Damar also secretly shot him from behind when he was forcibly teamed up with Dukat. He'll never know, his entire suit vibrated because of all the hits. He swears revenge on everyone and never gets it.

Jadzia kicks names and takes ass, and hits everyone at least once, and she only got tagged out thrice; once by Ben, secondly by Garak who was 'protecting' Julian, and finally by Damar.

Kira goes full commando and wears black to the occasion. When questioned by Dukat who's funeral she was attending, she swiftly replies 'I haven't decided yet, it's most likely yours though.'. Dukat spends the entirety terrified she'll actually kill him and forces Damar to team up with him because 'he's of higher rank'.

Damar, at first, goes alone and finds a couple good spots to ambush from, until Dukat joins him; he never tells Dukat the spots and only uses them once he's free of Dukat and kicks half of the crew's ass and is extremely observant of everyone's tactics, habits and spots.

Quark at first tries to exploit the crew by setting up a drinks stand outside of bounds and hiking his prices, but after it doesn't work he says screw it and joins in. Whenever someone gets him cornered he pulls a whole 'come on, I'm just a little guy, what could I possibly do to you? I'm just trying to have fun, same as you!' except he actually has a very quick draw, it even surprises Odo when he catches Quark buying people out not to shoot him and letting him shoot them so he has a higher score.

Rom rigs anyone who'll pay him and Quark's guns so they can shoot through the walls or auto-fire when they're aimed at a sensor and rigs his own sensors so even if he gets hit it doesn't register.

Weyoun joins with his Jem'hadar and immediately gets turned on and struck out, after they've gotten that out of they're system, he's absolutely persistent and keeps coming back swearing he's gotten better with his aim, or less skittish. He never does, but he always has fun.

Keevan convinces his Jem'hadar to give him a boost onto the barriers of the labyrinth and far too late do they realize he's out of range for the laser guns and he calmly sits out the entire round taking a nap on the barrier until Odo knocks him off and disqualifies him and puts him on the bench.

[sarnakhwritesthings]

i had a dream last night involving DS9 (i think there was maybe Kira and Nog, I’m not sure) and we all know how Bajor has a 26 hour day, right?

Well, my brain decided to insist that instead of 24/7 the Bajorans say 26/5 as if they have a five day week and I can’t decide if this is new peak headcanon or just the mad ramblings of a brain that decided to actually grant me memories of the dream in question.

Would a 5 day week make sense for Bajor? I mean, unlike days (which are defined by the rotation of the planet) or years (which is one revolution around Bajor’s star) I don’t think there’s a planetary reason to have a week? Would they even have a week? Do they define it by their worship cycle slash how often they go to temple?

Brain i need answers shakes the meat computer violently

[ijustreallylikespock]

One Star Trek opinion I would die defending is that Quark, at the center of who he is, and despite his maybe “devious” image and reputation, is a deeply caring and loving person.

And yes, I did just rewatch The Siege of AR-558 and am currently in my feelings about him being so protective of Nog

[accidentalvillainy]

A while ago someone made a post about a headcanon they had that the reason Quark treated Rom like an idiot even though it he was later proven to be a pretty brilliant engineer and remarkably intuitive was so that the cardassians didn’t try and exploit him and take him away and that quark had just gotten into the habit of it by the time canon started.

However I think that the actual reason he kept doing it is much more heartbreaking. It is shown several times in the show that Quark doesn’t trust the federation anymore than the Cardassians and I think that to his mind he has no reason not to fear that the federation won’t do the same thing. And the worst part is that this actually does happen. Rom leaves the bar to join the Bajoran work force so the federation can use him to work on their station, and Nog joins the new occupying military force and is injured fighting a war for a government not his own on a planet far from home. And it just has to seem like he is losing his family to state propaganda and the federation’s war machine. And this is everything he helped the Bajorans fight against with the Cardassians. and the Cardassians might have tried to take his family from him but they never tried to convince him they were his friend while they did it.