"You tied me up and threatened to kill me."
"There were extenuating circumstances."
- Nog and Garak, 'Rocks and Shoals' (s6ep2)
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"You tied me up and threatened to kill me."
"There were extenuating circumstances."
- Nog and Garak, 'Rocks and Shoals' (s6ep2)
"Comphet Nog" is not a canonical tag on a03 - YET - but omg he is so very that in 'Life Support'. We see Quark and other "typical" Ferengi men around women throughout the series + they are obnoxious but not the same way Nog is. They're dismissive of women but always clearly attracted. They LEER. Nog is just a jerk. He doesn't know what he's doing, he's trying so hard to act like he does, it is epic teenage bravado.
(He has so clearly never kissed a girl. Meanwhile he's giving advice to Jake, who by this point has had a whole relationship with a hot, smart Dabo girl.)
And then in the very next episode ('Heart of Stone') we find out he's decided to join Starfleet. Because he doesn't want to end up like his father. But he can't be like his uncle, either - he's tried that and it's just got him into trouble with his best friend.
And once Nog is in Starfleet, he stops talking about "females" that way. The most significant exchange he has with a woman his own age is picking a fight with Jake's date ('It’s Only A Paper Moon'), which is to do with his PTSD (but could be read as slashy if you squint, esp as Jake really doesn't seem to get it, which is sad-making). Ezri is young + attractive enough for him to be into (Jake notes she's cute) but there's no trace of that there.
Nog's interest in feee-males is just not there. It's performative. Maybe he's gay, maybe he's ace, maybe he is something more complicated because alien sexuality, but as soon as he realizes it's okay to not be A Typical Ferengi Male, he eases up on it.
(He does ask that q about if the Earth guidebook will give him advice about women, 'Little Green Men', but that too feels like he's performing for other men + he drops it pretty quickly.)
jake sisko teaching nog how to read is an underrated moment of adorable/gay
(in retrospect maybe it is also a damning indictment of what happens when you get a botanist to play schoolteacher)