Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 4, Episode 8 - "Little Green Men"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Little Green Men," Quark, Nog and Rom wind up in Roswell in 1947. Making the best of the situation, Quark figures he can cut some deals and run the galaxy in a few years - forget going back to Deep Space Nine!
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| 0:19.4 | Mission Log a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, Episode 342, Little Green Man. Welcome. Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek |
| 0:48.0 | podcast. I'm John Champion. |
| 0:50.0 | And I'm Norman Lough. Each week on Mission Log we take a deep dive and even risk altering the timeline in order to find the profit. I mean morals. |
| 0:59.0 | Meanings and messages in every episode of Star Trek. |
| 1:03.4 | This week, little green men, the one where three alien males of somewhat diminutive |
| 1:09.3 | stature and really more orange than green skin show up out of time out of place and throw an |
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