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"Life's Lessons" is a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine short story published in Strange New Worlds I. It was the first ever short story based on the series.

Summary

Nog, on break from Starfleet Academy, adjusts to the recent changes in his life, while Keiko O'Brien also has trouble adjusting after Kira Nerys becomes surrogate mother to her child.

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References

Races and cultures

Bajoran • Ferengi • Human • Trill
Referenced only: Klingon

States and organizations

Bajoran Militia • Starfleet • Starfleet Academy • United Federation of Planets

Other references

Bajoran language • Cardassian language • Ferengi Rules of Acquisition • "hew-mon" • prune juice • root beer

Appendices

Related media

DS9 episode: "Body Parts"

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: Of Cabbages and Kings	Strange New Worlds I	Next story: Where I Fell Before My Enemy
Previous story: first story	DS9 short stories	Next story: Where I Fell Before My Enemy Strange New Worlds I
Previous story: first Star Trek story	Stories by: Christina F. York	Next story: Calculated Risk Strange New Worlds II
chronological order
Previous adventure: Remember	Pocket Books Timeline	Next adventure: Rogue main story Section 31
Previous story: The Ship	Deep Space Nine Adventures	Next story: Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places