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"Best Tools Available" is a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine short story.

Summary

Nog takes the Kobayashi Maru scenario at Starfleet Academy.

References

Characters

Rahim al Nabil • Rachel Aprile • Tara Bassette • Liam Boothby • Nog • Stoek • Tranna • Dega Val
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Kathryn Janeway • James T. Kirk • Jean-Luc Picard • Quark • Rom • Benjamin Sisko • Jake Sisko • Hikaru Sulu • Worf

Locations

Archer Hall • San Francisco
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Deep Space 9 • Romulan Neutral Zone • Sausalito

Starships and vehicles

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Kobayashi Maru • USS Manhattan • Romulan bird-of-prey

Races and cultures

Ferengi • Human • Trill • Vulcan
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Bajoran • Betazoid • Borg • Klingon • Romulan

States and organizations

Starfleet • Starfleet Academy • United Federation of Planets
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Dominion

Other references

Andorian rose • Battle of Wolf 359 • cadet • daffodil • Ferengi Rules of Acquisition • Kobayashi Maru scenario • Khitomer Accords • latinum • Risan daffodil • Romulan ale • silk • spruce tree • tranna

Chronology

Appendices

Related media

Background

Connections

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:
Urgent Matter 		Strange New Worlds VI Next story:
Homemade
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Urgent Matter
Strange New Worlds VI 		DS9 short stories Next story:
Revisited, Part One
Prophecy and Change
Previous story:
first Star Trek story 		Stories by:
Shawn Michael Scott 		Next story:
most recent work
chronological order
Previous adventure:
Trial by Error 		Pocket Books Timeline Next adventure:
The Bottom Line
Strange New Worlds III
Previous adventure:
A Year to the Day I Saw Myself Die
Star Trek: Explorer 		Deep Space Nine Adventures Next adventure:
The Bottom Line
Strange New Worlds III
Previous adventure:
A Year to the Day I Saw Myself Die
Star Trek: Explorer 		Memory Beta Chronology Next adventure:
Spock: Reflections, Issue 1
pages 1 - 3, 9 - 11 & 21 - 22
Spock: Reflections