"The Bottom Line" is a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine short story.

Summary

Nog takes the Kobayashi Maru scenario at Starfleet Academy.

References

Characters

Liam Boothby • Yora Elmark • Herrell • Kai-ree • Gerard LeFevebre • Nog • Surya • Torbish

Referenced only

Ishka • Rom • William Shakespeare • Benjamin Sisko • Jake Sisko

Locations

Earth • San Francisco

Referenced only

Deep Space 9

Races and cultures

Andorian • Bolian • Ferengi • Human (French) • Vulcan

Referenced only

Cardassian

Starships

Referenced only

Galor-class • Kobayashi Maru • USS Yorktown • USS Venture (Galaxy-class)

States and organizations

Starfleet • Starfleet Academy

Other references

cadet • croque-monsieur • duracrete • Ferengi Rules of Acquisition • gree worm • Hamlet • holodeck • IDIC • Kobayashi Maru scenario • sonic shower • warp nacelle

Chronology

Appendices

Background

• Nog's field study assignment to Deep Space 9, as seen in DS9 episode: "The Ascent" is described as being imminent.

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: Dorian's Diary	Strange New Worlds III	Next story: The Best Defense...
Previous story: Dorian's Diary Strange New Worlds III	DS9 short stories	Next story: The Best Defense... Strange New Worlds III
Previous story: first Star Trek story	Stories by: Andrew (Drew) Morby	Next story: most recent work
chronological order
Previous adventure: Best Tools Available Strange New Worlds VI	Pocket Books Timeline	Next adventure: The Muse
Previous adventure: Spock: Reflections, Issue 1 pages 1 - 3, 9 - 11 & 21 - 22	Memory Beta Chronology	Next adventure: The Muse
Previous adventure: Best Tools Available Strange New Worlds VI	Deep Space Nine Adventures	Next adventure: The Muse