In "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" The "Napredok" episode (9.05.1993), NOG (Aaron Eisenberg) and Akeeke (Zirk Lofton) stumble on a bizarre business opportunity. It seems that the uncle of the NOG, Quark (Armin Shimerman), accidentally bought a large volume of yamok sauce, a drug that was enjoyed mainly by the Cardasians. Since there is only one cardiac on Deep Space Nine, Quark has no benefit to things. Nog asks his uncle whether he and Jake can have him, and Quark agrees, happy to have him from his hands.

Nog feels that he and the Akeeke can sell the sauce, and they find a buyer smart. Unfortunately, the captain of the Lisepian freight they speaks to have no latinoma to buy the sauce. The only thing he has is the rough of sealing the stem screws, which it offers in exchange. Knowing the sauce will soon be spoiled, and the understanding will not have too many other attractives, the NOG and the Akejak are accepting the offer. The gross-sealing grooves of the stem are loaded into one of the cargo spacecraft. But now a new puzzle has emerged: what will they do with all these stems for stems? In fact, they discover that a fundamental question should be asked first: what is a hook is a stem seal?

In the end, Nog and Akeeke trades with screws for several hectares of Earth on the planet Bayor. Nog hates the idea, feeling that the earth is worthless; I suppose there is no Ferinenarararar's real estate market. Fortunately, their land gets value when the Bayran government is looking for it for a construction project. To get their money, NOG and Akeeke sell their country to get up for orderly profit. Everything that works for them in the end.

For those bolts for stems? Akeeke and Nog have never discovered what they were used for.

The central joke of the episode is that neither the nor nor the joke-no one else on that matter-they do not know what the stem for self-sealing is. Only as soon as they already have thousands of bugs in the DS9 cargo, whether they think they will ask an engineer, O'Brien Chief (Colm Minsi), which is the stem screws. O'Brien, however, is just as stuck. He does not know what the stem screws are doing, for what they are used, or why someone would like one. Only the name indicates that they can be used to reduce things and that it would be an advantage for the screw to seal.

In short, the stem seal is, in short, a useless accessory. Vague work with an unspecified technical function. The uselessness of the stem of Stem has become something that runs throughout the "Star Trek", and many franchise writers have kept their real use almost completely. "Progress" was the last time someone sees a parent screw for self-sealing on the Deep Space Nine screen, but they are said to be useful at least another occasion. In the "Prophet Motif" episode (February 20, 1995), Quark would notice that he also visited the gross-printing of stem screws independently and that he had found a legitimate buyer who would pay a lot of money for them.

The buyer was supposed to offer a quartz ten lattice with Latinum under the pressure of gold for the screws, saying they can easily build more routing planners in reverse. And what exactly is a reverse -direction routing planner? Another accessory whose function remains as unclear as the stem screw for sealing. The only thing we know about routing planners is that bolts for stems are needed in their production.

In another access to the accessory, they were once suggested and stem screws for self-sealing and vice versa router as potential tools to place Jailbreak in the "Deep Space Nine" episode (February 17, 1997), and O'Brien, again listing them again in them again in them in The last episode of the show, "What You Leave Behind" (June 2, 1999). O'Brien noted that the engineers were invaluable to Starflit officers who graduated from the Starflet Academy and that they were looking forward to taking a new position as an instructor there. Someone, he said, had to teach Starfrit officers about the differences between the flux capacitor and the self-sealing stem screws.

Takee took 21 years before another Star Trek Star Bolt appeared, as mentioned in the episode of the third season of Star Trek: Discovery. Specifically, in the episode "Scavengers" (November 19, 2020). That season comes after USS Discovery jumped forward over time over 900 years and revealed that most Starfleet had been deleted in a cataclysm across the galaxy. The cataclysm, dubbed "Burn", has caused all stars to explode with dilitium crystals, stimulating most of the high -speed travel trips. It has been noted that the carcasses of the exploded arsevils have been cannibalized for parts and that even their screws for the sealing stem have been taken.

The animated series "Star Trek: Lower decks" was widespread with references to the old episodes of Star Trek, so it was just a matter of time before the writers of that show fell in calling the screws. Finally happened in The episode "Heart of Ferenga" . "You have been following that stem screws for so long," notes Boimler, "that it probably can't be sealed anymore." There is no note that Mariner builds a reverse routing planner, or anything else on that matter.

Will the screws return to future shows? Only time will say.