Malissa Longo, the widow of Star Trek: Deep Area 9 actor Aron Eisenberg, calls Nog’s ultimate, canonical rank in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy “mega bulls—.” Nog’s title is one in all dozens of Starfleet legends and real-life Star Trek creatives emblazoned on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy‘s Wall of Heroes within the late thirty second century.
Nonetheless, Nog is merely listed as “Lt. Nog,” the identical rank he achieved on the finish of Star Trek: Deep Area 9. Given the intense future forward for the primary Ferengi in Starfleet, and Nog showing as a Captain in a single alternate future seen in Star Trek: Deep Area 9, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy successfully determines that Nog by no means rose previous Lieutenant, which appears mistaken.
Digital Trek Con’s Star Trek and Chill podcast reviewed ScreenRant‘s article Star Trek’s Legacy Wall: The ten Most Stunning Reveals, which highlighted Lt. Nog’s itemizing on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s Wall of Heroes. Though she is a fan of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, Malissa Longo strongly objected to Lieutenant being Nog’s canonically recorded ultimate rank. Learn Malissa’s quote and watch the video beneath:
“I name bulls—. Mega, mega bullsh—. That is my bone to select. We noticed Nog change into Captain in Deep Area 9…
We did see him, sooner or later, two occasions, not simply in Deep Area 9, however within the documentary, What We Left Behind. He was a Captain on the Defiant. So he was killed when he was Captain on the Defiant… Nog all the time turned a Captain, so he ought to positively have no less than reached Captaincy… Captain Nog perpetually…
And he did not die in the course of the Dominion Battle. He misplaced a leg, which makes him a hero. Due to his actions, he was a hero. However he went on and discovered from his tragedy in the course of the Siege of [AR-558]… However he made it by means of. He survived. And I’ve little question that he took what he discovered from that and went on to be Captain.”
As Malissa defined, Nog was a Starfleet Captain within the alternate future seen in Star Trek: Deep Area 9‘s season 4 traditional, “The Customer.” Within the documentary What We Left Behind, DS9′s core writing crew, led by showrunner Ira Steven Behr, made Nog Captain of the USS Defiant within the first episode of their apocryphal Star Trek: Deep Area 9 season 8.
Nog was a beloved Star Trek: Deep Area 9 character, and maybe the best instance of DS9‘s penchant for elevating ancillary roles till they equaled the recognition of DS9‘s core solid. Nog was not solely the primary Ferengi in Starfleet, however he was a extremely revered Ensign who misplaced his leg whereas preventing within the Dominion Battle.
Nog acquired his promotion to Lieutenant on the finish of Star Trek: Deep Area 9, and it is baffling that the highly-motivated and hypercompetent Ferengi by no means rose larger in canon, as established by Star Trek: Starfleet Academy‘s Wall of Heroes. In spite of everything, Nog was sponsored and mentored by Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks), and Captaincy appeared to be Nog’s future.
Star Trek: Discovery acknowledged Nog by naming the Eisenberg Class starship USS Nog after Aron and his signature Ferengi. But this solely makes Star Trek: Starfleet Academy itemizing Nog as a Lieutenant extra confounding. Would Starfleet title a starship after a mere Lieutenant, even when he was the primary Ferengi in Starfleet?
Malissa Longo continues Aron Eisenberg’s work on The seventh Rule podcast that Aron based with Cirroc Lofton and Ryan T. Husk, in addition to internet hosting and dealing behind the scenes on Digital Trek Con’s podcasts The Major Viewer and Star Trek and Chill.
An artist, actor, and entrepreneur, Malissa Longo met Aron Eisenberg in 2013, and so they married in 2018 earlier than his tragic passing in September 2019. Malissa speaks for Aron and intimately is aware of her late husband’s emotions about Star Trek. Whereas Malissa is assured Aron would have cherished Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, she believes he would additionally suppose Nog by no means rising previous Lieutenant is “mega bulls—.”