Little Green Men (DS9 S4 E08)

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Little Green Men (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, S4 E08) was recommended by Blackrain, who said: When you ask for an episode, I thought hard about for one. Thinking over all the past Star Trek series I have watched and this was the first episode that popped to my mind. I've always found it fun when Sci-fi TV shows would try to put their twist on the Roswell alien crash conspiracy theory. Whether you believe it's true or not each take on it is wonderful to see. Star Trek was just another one to jump on the Roswell crash boat, but didn't have the normal DS9 bridge crew crash land a earth. Nope they had the Ferengi's. Quark, Rom, and Nog. It had the classic first contact tropes miscommunication, the 1940s human biases and conspiracy minded, all topped off with Quark being a Ferengi trying to sale stuff to the hu-mans. Love how Quark says hu-man. This was also one were Rom starts showing his start and dominant side to Quark. Just look at Rom's face at the end of the episode. No words are say, but you know what he is thinking and he has that mischievous grin on his face.

Ya'll said in a past episode a lot of people didn't like didn't like the episode with the Ferengi's in them. I love all the episodes that have Ferengi's in them or feature them. DS9 really helped to develop and advance what their culture and species was from when they first showed up in TNG.

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Little Green Men first aired on November 15, 1995, written by story by Toni Marberry & Jack Treviño, teleplay by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe, and directed by James L. Conway

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