NOG: Computer, evasive manoeuver! Fire phasers! Launch torpedoes and escape pods! *SCREAMS*
O'BRIEN: We'll have to improvise. Let me introduce you to your new comm. system. Cadet.
NOG: Cadet Nog, reporting as ordered, sir.
SISKO: Stand easy.
O'BRIEN: With most of the bridge control functions offline, all orders to Engineering have to be relayed. In the interests of clarity I thought it best that those messages be relayed with one voice, Mister Academy here. I figured you'd want someone who could hear you while the bridge is exploding all around you.
NOG: Exploding?
SISKO: We may be going into a combat situation. Do think you're ready for that, Cadet?
NOG: Sir. Yes, sir. Absolutely, sir.
SISKO: I'm glad to hear it. Report to the bridge.
NOG: Aye, sir. (as he leaves) Exploding?
NOG: He may have been a hero. He may even have been a great man. But in the end he was a bad captain.
Jake and Nog's whole storylines in Progress and In The Cards are really fun. I always think back really fondly on their story in Progress, it's part of my earliest memories of getting into Star Trek and seeing new Star Trek air for the first time and I think that storyline and episode still holds up really well today. I think rather fondly of It's Only a Paper Moon and it's message about losing yourself to depression and fictional worlds rather than face the real world and being able to overcome that state and those feelings.
It was really cool seeing this bit character transform over the years into a really fleshed out and well-defined person.
RIP.
