DS9: Little Green Men

         I was looking forward to this episode all day and when I finally watched it I wasn't disappointed. At the same time it didn't quite hit the perfect 10 score that I was expecting based on my memories, but it is easily a top 25 episode from all of Trek so hardly a bad one. Quark continues to emerge as possibly my favorite character on DS9 with his plans to destroy the timeline we know and love and replace them with one dominated by a highly profitable Ferengi trade empire. I also appreciated how only Nog was able to actually figure out how to manipulate these paranoid humans while Quark keeps trying to negotiate a deal. There are a few good Odo ex machina moments in this one that make me wish they had the budget to have Odo transform every episode. 
         We begin with Rom organizing a traditional auction of Nog's childhood possessions before he leaves for the academy. Worf shows up and buys a tooth sharpener and Dax buys Julian a Ferengi erotic holosuite program. Quark interrupts to tell Rom that his ship has arrived, Rom naturally asks what ship and Quark explains their cousin has owed him a shuttle for ten years and finally delivered. Rom checks it over and it seems to be in good shape so Quark volunteers to take Nog to Earth, but of course plans to do some profitable smuggling along the way. Something goes wrong with their hazardous cargo though and they are transported back to 1947 and crash in Roswell New Mexico. 
         Their universal translators malfunctioning at first the humans are unable to understand them at all and assume they are hostile martians. Rom manages to get them working again though and Quark starts trying to destroy the future by offering to trade advance tech while at the same time plotting to take the shuttle back to the Ferengi homeworld and give them the tech to be a leading power in the galaxy. His plans are somewhat wrecked with Odo shows up having suspected the smuggling and sneaking aboard the shuttle. With the help of two scientists and some good old fashioned paranoia they manage to escape and use the power of an atomic bomb to get back to their own time. 

         Review: My summary above doesn't do this justice, go watch it yourself! Quark, Rom and Nog are all great as is Odo. The humans are a bit one note, but this is still a really fun episode.

9 out of 10