Little Green Men

This Story: Season 4 Episode 8 (production code 480)
DS9 Overall: Episode 80
Trek Overall: Story 341, Episode 361
Airdate: 6 Nov 1995
Story: Toni Marberry & Jack Trevino
Screenplay: Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Director: James L. Conway

Notes

• General Denning was played by Charlies Napier.  He also played “Adam” in the TOS episode “The Way to Eden“. Allegedly Napier asked to play a military type when he returned to Trek given his “Space Hippie” he played in the 60’s.  He was the one who sung “Gonna crack my knuckles and jump for joy, got a clean bill of health from Dr. McCoy!” – hahaha
• Apparently this episode’s title is a nod to a line spoken in the TOS episode “Tomorrow is Yesterday” where its says “…and I never have believed in little green men.”
• This episode is directed by James Conway.  He also directed a movie called “Hangar 18” about the Roswell incident. It’s amusing that he directed this too.
• The first episode with fully spoken Ferengi language.
• To that, this episode establishes that during normal Star Trek episodes, the Ferengi characters aren’t actually speaking English.
• While this episode is listed as airing 8th in the season, all the websites and books I can find show its original airdate as being BEFORE the episode before this (Starship Down). The DS9 Companion book (which is GOLD) lists the first date for this episode as 6 Nov 1995, yet the one that came before it was listed as 13 Nov.  Yet they list Green Men as episode 8 and Starship as episode 7 despite the dates indicating they were broadcast the other way around. I cannot explain this inconsistency.
• The events of “Past Tense” are mentioned when Nog points out that Gabriel Bell looks like Capt Sisko.
• Two rules of acquisition mentioned:
  # 203 – New customers are like razor-toothed gree-worms. They can be succulent, but sometimes they bite back.
  # 62 – The riskier the road, the greater the profit.

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