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PERSONNEL FILE: Nog

Rank: Lieutenant
Current residence: Station Deep Space 9
Full Name: Nog
Species: Ferengi
Date of birth: ca. 2353
Place of birth: Ferenginar
Parents: Father, Rom; Mother, Prinadora
Education: Entered Starfleet Academy, 2371
Marital status: Single

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Starfleet Career Summary

2371 — Accepted with sponsorship and advanced prep classes to Starfleet Academy
2372 — As cadet, assisted in exposure of conspiracy to enact martial law on Earth
2375 — Promoted to lieutenant per recommendation of Captain Benjamin Sisko

Psychological Profile: Report of Starfleet Academy Counselor's Office

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.

'Badda-Bing Badda-Bang' is the 165th episode of the syndicated American science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 15th episode of the seventh season. It's a Holodeck show in the style of this science fiction franchise, this time in one of Quark's holosuite's on Deep Space Nine, and featuring the self-aware hologram Vic Fontaine played by James Darren.

Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures on Deep Space Nine, a space station located near a stable wormhole between the Alpha and Gamma quadrants of the Milky Way Galaxy. In this episode, a surprise change programmed into Vic's (James Darren) lounge by the designer, Felix (a friend of Dr. Bashir), turns the lounge into a mob-owned casino and burlesque where Vic is no longer welcome. This has many guest stars filling in various holodeck characters that play opposite the main Deep Space Nine cast.

Plot[edit]

Julian Bashir and Miles O'Brien enjoy an evening at Vic Fontaine's, when the program suddenly changes into a noisy cabaret. Frankie Eyes, Vic's longtime rival, shows up to throw Vic out. Bashir and O'Brien try to delete Frankie or freeze the program, but it doesn't work.

After Frankie fires Vic, the crew learns that Frankie was written into the holosuite program by Vic's designer, Felix. Upset by Frankie's treatment of Vic, and by the knowledge that the lounge's atmosphere will now change, the crew decides it must rid the program of Frankie. But to accomplish this task, they realize, he must be eliminated in a way that is period-specific to Fontaine's era: circa 1962. They cannot simply rewrite the program because that would result in Vic forgetting all the experiences that he has shared with the crew up to this point. The task takes on greater urgency when Vic is beaten up.

Vic reveals that he was assaulted by Frankie's bodyguard, Tony Cicci. Eager to discover Frankie's weak spot, Odo and Kira go undercover in the casino to do some research. Frankie takes a liking to Kira, and while the two flirt, Odo learns that Frankie works for crime boss Carl Zeemo, who expects to receive from Frankie a large skim of the hotel's huge daily profits. The crew hatches a plan to rob the casino, hoping it will cause Zeemo to bump off Frankie in retaliation.

The plot is set in motion when the crew infiltrates the casino staff, and Vic convinces Frankie to let him bring his high rolling contacts into the casino — who, unbeknownst to Frankie, are Starfleet officers. Meanwhile, Benjamin Sisko resents Kasidy Yates' participation in the plan, admitting he has not visited Vic's because of how blacks were treated in Las Vegas in the 1960s. She urges him to reconsider, citing the comfort she and Jake have both felt in the lounge, and soon Sisko agrees to play a pivotal role as a big-money gambler.

Vic walks the crew through their complex plan, to be executed the following night before Zeemo arrives. A security guard makes a phone call at the same time each night which allows them only eight minutes to pull off the heist. Though all crew members are well-prepared for their roles, the actual evening presents several glitches to the plan — most notably when Nog discovers that the lock on the safe is of a different type than expected. While he struggles to crack the lock, Zeemo arrives a day early to pick up his cash.

Noticing Zeemo's premature entrance, Vic does his best to stall him, while the other crew members fabricate enough stories and distractions to allow a successful Nog and Odo to slip away with the cash. After Zeemo discovers an empty safe, his thugs lead Frankie and Cicci out of the casino while reaching for the guns under their lapels — leaving Vic to his cherished role as lounge singer and the crew to theirs as satisfied patrons.

The atmosphere of the lounge changes back to the way it was originally. Vic takes the stage with his own band back, and calls up Captain Sisko, who joins him in a duet of 'The Best Is Yet to Come'.

Star Trek Deep Space Nine Chimera

Cast note[edit]

Actor Robert O'Reilly normally appears in the recurring role of Klingon Chancellor Gowron on the series. For this episode, he plays a holographic human working in the count room of the casino, and is credited as actor “Bobby Reilly” in the opening guest appearances credits. O’Reilly’s fellow “Klingon” portrayer, J. G. Hertzler, did a similar name variation, for similar reasons, in the previous episode.

Reception[edit]

This had Nielsen ratings of 4.1 points when it was broadcast on television in 1999, equating to over 4 million television viewers at that time.^[1] In 2018, it had rating of 8.3/10 on 159 ratings at TV.com.^[2] In 2019, CBR ranked this the 17th best holodeck-themed episode of all Star Trek franchise episodes up to that time.^[3]

References[edit]

Star Trek Deep Space Nine Cast Now

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2. ^TV.com. 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang'. TV.com. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
3. ^'Star Trek: Ranking the 20 Best Holodeck Episodes'. CBR. January 4, 2019. Retrieved June 11, 2019.

External links[edit]

Star Trek Deep Space Nine Character List

• 'Badda-Bing Badda-Bang' on IMDb
• 'Badda-Bing Badda-Bang' at TV.com
• 'Badda-Bing Badda-Bang' at Memory Alpha (a Star Trekwiki)
• 'Badda-Bing Badda-Bang' at StarTrek.com