Academy Acquisition

"Academy Acquisition" is a DS9 short story published in the digital subscriber edition of Star Trek Explorer, Issue 9 in November 2023. It first saw print in Titan Magazines' omnibus "A Year to the Day That I Saw Myself Die" and Other Stories in December 2024. Written by Jake Black and illustrated by Andy Walker, the story focused on Nog during his first weeks at Starfleet Academy.

Description[]

Nog ties to prove his worth at Starfleet Academy.

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Characters[]

Liam Boothby • Ford • J'Nas • Nog • Runnels • Schenck • Thompson • Whitaker
Referenced only: Dillon • Quark • Rom • Nikolai Rozhenko • Benjamin Sisko • Worf

Occupations and titles[]

cadet • captain • commander • groundskeeper • instructor • lieutenant commander • officer

Other references[]

bird • cave • century • corridor • day • elm • Ferengi Gold daylily • Ferengi Rules of Acquisition • fish • flower • grass • latinum • life • logic • minute • nightmare • plant • root • salt • second • sleep • soil • Federation Starfleet ranks (2360s-2370s) • Starfleet uniform (2366-2373) • tree • water • weed

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Related media[]

DS9 episode: "In the Hands of the Prophets" – The 7th Rule of Acquisition: "Keep your ears open".
DS9 episode: "Rules of Acquisition" – The 48th rule: "The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife."
DS9 reference: The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition – The 117th rule: "You can't free a fish from water".
TNG - SA novel: Worf's First Adventure – Worf and Nikolai Rozhenko together at the Academy, with cadet Zak Kebron picking a fight with the Klingon.
SA comic: "Prime Directives" – An alternate account of Nog's introduction to Boothby during his first weeks at the Academy.
Starfleet Academy comic series – Features Nog and classmates in Omega Squad.

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Stories set in Starfleet Academy
Comics	Starfleet Academy ("Prime Directives • Liberty • Loyalty Test • War and Peace • Love and Death • Passages • Hide and Seek • X² • Return to the Forbidden Planet • A Prelude to War • Judgment • Telepathy War (Part One) • Parents' Day • T'Priell Revealed (Part One • Part Two • Part Three) • Culture Clash • MangHom qaD • Between Love and Hate") • Starfleet Academy! • Starfleet Academy (Issue 1 • Issue 2 • Issue 3 • Issue 4 • Issue 5) • Picard's Academy ("Loup Solitaire" • "Hurler Avec Les Loups" • "Froid de Loup" • "Les Loups Ne Se Mangent Pas Entre Eux" • "Dans La Gueule Du Loup" • "Jeune Loup")
Movies	Starfleet Academy SCISEC Briefs (SCISEC Brief 001: "Mystery Behind Voyager" • SCISEC Brief 002: "Mystery Behind Ceti Alpha VI" • SCISEC Brief 003: "Mystery Behind the Vulcan Katra Transfer" • SCISEC Brief 004: "The Whale Probe" • SCISEC Brief 005: "Nimbus III" • SCISEC Brief 006: "Praxis" • SCISEC Brief 007: "Trilithium" • SCISEC Brief 008: "Temporal Vortex" • SCISEC Brief 009: "The Origins of the Ba'ku and Son'a Conflict" • SCISEC Brief 010: "Thalaron Radiation")
Novels	Video game novelization • 1990s series (Crisis on Vulcan • Aftershock • Cadet Kirk • Worf's First Adventure • Line of Fire • Survival • Lifeline • The Chance Factor • Quarantine) • The Best and the Brightest • Academy: Collision Course • 2010s series (The Delta Anomaly • The Edge • The Gemini Agent • The Assassination Game)
Short stories	"The Bottom Line" • "Best Tools Available" • "Academy Acquisition"
Video games	Starfleet Academy Starship Bridge Simulator • Starfleet Academy • Starfleet Academy: Strategic Command • Starfleet Academy: Chekov's Lost Missions • Academy Trainer • Cadet Training Facility
Live performances	Star Trek Live • The Starfleet Academy Experience

Short stories published in magazines
TV21 Weekly	TOS stories	"Gateway to the Future"
Stardate Magazine	TOS stories	"Force of Law" • "The Killax Vendetta" • "Planetfall" • "Coronation Presumptuous" • "Boarding Party" • "Roleplaying in the Final Frontier"
Amazing Stories	TNG stories	"Last Words" • "On the Scent of Trouble" • "Life Itself is Reason Enough" • "Bedside Matters"
Amazing Stories	VOY stories	"When Push Comes to Shove" • "A Night at Sandrine's" • "The Space Vortex of Doom"
Star Trek Magazine	STO stories	"Unexpected Honor" • "Shakedown" • "The Gale, Part 1" • "The Gale, Part 2" • "Mirror Image, Part 1" • "Mirror Image, Part 2" • "Chief, Part 1" • "Chief, Part 2" • "Of Chaos and Kal-toh, Part 1" • "Of Chaos and Kal-toh, Part 2" • "Dove" • "Backchannel Negotiations" • "There's No Place Like..." • "Locks Without Keys, Part 1" • "Locks Without Keys, Part 2" • "Hope Remains" • "After the Storm" • "Recruitment Drive" • "Time of the Scotsman" • "An Honorable Frontier"
Star Trek: Explorer	stories	"All That Most Maddens and Torments" • "Q and False" • "A Night In" • "The Offer" • "Seven ﹥ Seven" • "Quality of Life" • "Retribution" • "Broken Oaths" • "The Way to Exile" • "Kill Captain Proton!" • "Cumulative Damage" • "Explorers of the Storm" • "Prey" • "Growing Pains" • "Pulaski 2.0" • "The Disavowed" • "By Special Request" • "Paghabi" • "The Expert" • "The Guardian" • "The Mission" • "Things Can Only Get Better" • "Frontier Medicine" • "Control" • "The Victim" • "Scramble" • "You Can't Buy Fate" • "Summer Days Can Last Forever" • "The Kellidian Kidnapping" • "Lost and Founder" • "A Year to the Day I Saw Myself Die" • "See and Seen" • "Work Worth Doing" • "The Trouble with Jones" • "Sundering" • "Academy Acquisition" • "Jack of Diamonds" • "A Dish Served Cold" • "Forewarned and Three-Armed" • "Working Miracles" • "Confirmation Bias" • "Dignified Transfer" • "Attempted Break-in" • "Cat and Mouse" • "Housewarming" • "The Sirius Snarl" • "Memoriam" • "The Simulation" • "Chekov's Challenge" • "The Snake and the Worm" • "Freeblade" • "The Needs of the Many"• "Family History" • "In Two Minds" • "My Name is Mudd" • "The Lost Noel" • "Into the Cardassian Quagmire"

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine collected short stories, novellas and short novels
The Lives of Dax	"Second Star to the Right..." • "First Steps" • "Dead Man's Hand" • "Old Souls" • "Sins of the Mother" • "Infinity" • "Allegro Ouroboros in D Minor" • "The Music Between the Notes" • "Reflections" • "... and straight on 'til morning"
Prophecy and Change	"Revisited" • "Ha'mara" • "The Orb of Opportunity" • "Broken Oaths" • "... Loved I Not Honor More" • "Three Sides to Every Story" • "The Devil You Know" • "Foundlings" • "Chiaroscuro" • "Face Value" • "The Calling"
Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Volume One ("Cardassia: The Lotus Flower" • "Andor: Paradigm") • Volume Two ("Trill: Unjoined" • "Bajor: Fragments and Omens") • Volume Three ("Ferenginar: Satisfaction is Not Guaranteed" • "The Dominion: Olympus Descending")
Strange New Worlds	I ("Life's Lessons" • "Where I Fell Before My Enemy") • II ("Research" • "Change of Heart") • III ("Ninety-three Hours" • "Dorian's Diary" • "The Bottom Line" • "The Best Defense..." • "An Errant Breeze") • IV ("Captain Proton and the Orb of Bajor" • "Isolation Ward 4") • V ("Fear, Itself") • VI ("Fabrications" • "Urgent Matter" • "Best Tools Available") • VII ("Infinite Bureaucracy" • "Barclay Program Nine") • 8 ("Trek" • "Gumbo" • "Promises Made" • "Always a Price") • 9 ("Shadowed Allies" • "Living on the Edge of Existence" • "The Last Tree on Ferenginar: A Ferengi Fable From the Future" • "The Tribbles' Pagh") • 10 ("So a Horse Walks into a Bar..." • "Signal to Noise") • 2016 ("The Façade of Fate" • "The Manhunt Pool" • "The Dreamer and the Dream")
Star Trek: Explorer	"A Night In" • "By Special Request" • "The Mission" • "Things Can Only Get Better" • "Frontier Medicine" • "The Victim" • "You Can't Buy Fate" • "Lost and Founder" • "A Year to the Day I Saw Myself Die" • "Academy Acquisition" • "The Snake and the Worm" • "The Needs of the Many"
Misc. short stories	"The Badlands, Part IV" • "The Second Artifact" • "Mirror Eyes" • "Requital" • "The Officers' Club" • "A Terrible Beauty"
Misc. novellas & short novels	"Horn and Ivory" • "Saturn's Children" • "Seeds of Dissent" • "A Gutted World"

Timeline[]

published order
Previous story: Sundering	Short stories (Star Trek: Explorer)	Next story: Jack of Diamonds
Previous story: Sundering	Short stories ("A Year to the Day That I Saw Myself Die" and Other Stories)	Next story: Work Worth Doing
Previous story: A Year to the Day I Saw Myself Die Star Trek: Explorer	DS9 short stories	Next story: The Snake and the Worm Star Trek: Explorer
Previous story: Working Miracles Star Trek: Explorer	Stories by: Jake Black	Next story: Most recent work
chronological order
Previous adventure: Prime Directives Starfleet Academy	Memory Beta Chronology	Next adventure: Tattoo
Previous adventure: Prime Directives Starfleet Academy	Deep Space Nine Adventures	Next adventure: Starship Down