| rdfs:comment | - In 2369, Jake Sisko and Nog traded 5,000 wrappages of Cardassian yamok sauce for 100 gross self-sealing stem bolts, to a Lissepian freighter captain. Jake and Nog opened communications with the original buyer of the stem bolts, under the name "The Noh-Jay Consortium", but eventually settled with a trade of seven tessipates of land on Bajor. Nog was skeptical and preferred to stick to the bolts; Jake told Nog that, on land, one can build things, to which Nog replied that nothing could be built without bolts. Nog and Jake then made a deal with Quark to sell the land to a Bajoran government agency. (DS9: "Progress")
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| abstract | - In 2369, Jake Sisko and Nog traded 5,000 wrappages of Cardassian yamok sauce for 100 gross self-sealing stem bolts, to a Lissepian freighter captain. Jake and Nog opened communications with the original buyer of the stem bolts, under the name "The Noh-Jay Consortium", but eventually settled with a trade of seven tessipates of land on Bajor. Nog was skeptical and preferred to stick to the bolts; Jake told Nog that, on land, one can build things, to which Nog replied that nothing could be built without bolts. Nog and Jake then made a deal with Quark to sell the land to a Bajoran government agency. (DS9: "Progress") In 2371, an opportunity presented itself to Quark to get rid of a stash of self-sealing stem bolts sitting in Cargo Bay 11. He offered them to a wealthy prospective buyer named Emi for ten bars of gold-pressed latinum. Emi claimed that, with the stem bolts, her family would be able to begin triple production of reverse-ratcheting routing planers. Emi, however, was told by Grand Nagus Zek where she could get the bolts at wholesale, for a much-reduced price. (DS9: "Prophet Motive") While in captivity by the Jem'Hadar, Bashir suggested a discovered escape tool might be either a self-sealing stem bolt or a reverse ratcheting router. (DS9: "By Inferno's Light") In late 2375, O'Brien explained his reasons, to Dr. Bashir, for taking a teaching post at Starfleet Academy, O'Brien quipping, "Somebody has to teach you officers the difference between a warp matrix flux capacitor and a self-sealing stem bolt." (DS9: "What You Leave Behind") Story-wise, stem bolts were quintessential MacGuffins, with a name that was pure technobabble. Peter Allan Fields, who "invented" them, admitted that he didn't have "the foggiest idea" what they were used for. According to Ira Steven Behr, the writing staff used them long after Fields' departure from the series as a tribute to the former producer. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 52)
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