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 was written by Jake Black and illustrated by Andy Walker. The story focused on Nog during his first weeks 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

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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 v 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"

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"
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: A Year to the Day I Saw Myself Die	DS9 short stories	Next story: latest story
chronological order
Previous adventure: Prime Directives	Memory Beta Chronology	Next adventure: Tattoo

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Academy Acquisition

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