LITTLE GREEN MEN (STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE)

(Redirected from Little Green Men (DS9 episode))

"'Little Green Men'" is an episode of the television series '', the eighth episode of the fourth season.

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Quark finally receives a shuttle that his shady cousin Gaila has been promising him for several years. He christens it ''Quark's Treasure'' and prepares to take it out for a flight to Earth. His nephew Nog has been accepted to Starfleet Academy and is due to matriculate in San Francisco. Quark will deliver him there personally and make the trip profitable by smuggling a load of kemocite to Orion on the way home.
The crew gathers at Quark's for Nog's goodbye party, during which Nog is performing the customary Ferengi ritual of selling off all his childhood belongings. His father Rom keeps a set of Nog's pajamas, Dax buys Bashir a naughty holosuite program, and Worf finds a great Ferengi tooth sharpener that he likes. Afterwards, best friends Nog and Jake Sisko say goodbye in their old hangout on the Promenade, and Nog packs up and boards ''Quark's Treasure''.
As the ship nears Earth, Rom finds that there is something wrong. He is unable to drop out of warp. Before Quark can curse Cousin Gaila for sabotaging his ship, it crash-lands and the three Ferengi are knocked out.
They awaken on steel examination tables, covered with sheets, in a dim, sterile laboratory. A human male in the next room exhales cigarette smoke, and calmly summons a General Denning on a telephone. "Tell him one of the Martians is awake," he says. The calendar reads July, 1947.
As Rom and Nog awaken, they argue with Quark about what happened. Perhaps they have died and this is the Divine Treasury... or maybe it is the Vault of Eternal Destitution. In the next room, several humans have gathered to observe the behavior of the Martians. They activate the speaker and hear a bizarre, otherworldly language being spoken by the aliens. A military officer, a physician, and a nurse enter the room with two armed guards. Quark is annoyed he cannot understand what the humans are saying, and surmises their universal translators are out of order. Rom thinks it may be due to nuclear fission radiation in the atmosphere. When Nog agrees, pointing out that twentieth-century humans actually made weapons that utilized nuclear fission and detonated them on the planet's surface, Quark is horrified. He becomes progressively more disgusted when he notes that the humans all seem to have a habit of purposely inhaling the smoke of a burning tobacco plant... a behavior almost as vile as imbibing root beer. He insists they get off the planet as soon as possible to get away from these "savages."
Rom points at Nurse Garland's hair, and the humans figure out that he is requesting her hairpin. She gives it to him and he sticks it in Nog's ear, trying to reset the universal translator. Once he gets them working, the Ferengi communicate with the human savages. General Denning arrives and interrogates the Martians. When he and the other humans leave, their German Shepherd Guard Dog remains in the room. It comes over to greet Quark, pushes him up against the door, and morphs into Odo. The Constable tells him with a smirk that he knows about the kemocite smuggling, and hitched a ride aboard the ship to gather proof. He tells them the ship is in a nearby hangar and can be repaired in a few hours.
The humans return and bring the Ferengi to an interrogation room. Nurse Garland pulls up a syringe of drugs, and the humans demand the Martians tell them everything they know. After Quark shrugs off his fifth shot of sodium pentothal, Rom bursts into tears and cries for , and Nog confabulates a thrilling story about the impending Ferengi conquering of Earth, Nurse Garland realizes that her commanding officers' plans for the little Martians are not benign. She and the base physician, her fiance, help them escape from the building. A German Shepherd comes trotting up, morphs back into Odo, and takes down the armed guards. The group grabs a Jeep and heads for the hangar.
When Rom hears that there will soon be a nuclear test in the desert outside the base, he comes up with an idea. They fly the ship directly into the blast and jettison the kemocite, which reacts with the bomb to throw them ahead in time to where they started. Back on the base, General Denning thoughtfully chews his cigar and muses on the "crashed weather balloon" they found in nearby Roswell, New Mexico, and Nurse Garland and her fiance look forward to their honeymoon in Niagara Falls.

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