Product Details

• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Paramount
• VHS Release Date: August 3, 1999
• Run Time: 46 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000003K7H
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #518,315 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bajoran rebels taking over Tarek Nor?, June 30, 2000

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MRT (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Episode 53: Civil Defense [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This was a very good episode. Jake Sisko and Chief O'brien are doing work in a seldom used part of the station, Commander Sisko comes in and checks on them. Jake and Miles while trying to decode some hidden Cardassian computer codes trigger off a defense warning trapping them in that part of the station, and putting the whole station on alert.

Apparently Dukat had a computer program installed in case the Bajorans tried to take over the station during the occupation.

Dukat noticing some problems, beams in and finds Dax, Kira, Bashir, and Garak trapped by a laser beam from the food replicator that is designed for everyone except Cardassians. But when Dukat is finally convinced by Kira to deactivate the defense systems, his over-confidence is shattered when his father secretly over-rides Dukats codes, so that Dukat can't be a coward, and escape the destruction of the station.

Meanwhile Jake, Ben, and Miles are trying to escape through ducts, because a poisonous gas is being released. Jake is able to fit through a small hole in the duct and open a door so that the other two can get out. The commander and Miles go through a firey tunnel to get to the main computer system, and deactivate the self-destruct sequence before the station is destroyed. O'Brien is overcome by the gas half-way down the tunnel, and Jake pulls him out in time. Commander Sisko makes it to the main computer and deactivates the self-destruct sequence, just seconds before the station is destroyed.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Top notch!, October 5, 2001

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Delenn Mir (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Episode 53: Civil Defense [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I love this episode because it is well written and (as someone already said) to see the look on Dukat's face. Well, I can stop the station from blowing up... *smiles* think again. Garak get's a good laugh from the whole thing. What else is new, right? They hate each other, and here is your enemy, being embarassed. Top notch!

5.0 out of 5 stars DS9 destroyed for good? Think of the probable causes., July 22, 2003

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Wes Huntington (Le Sueur, MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Episode 53: Civil Defense [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is what I mean in the episode "Crossover" as the Terrans as the Bajorans and the Klingons as the bosses of them.

A trapped crew fights to save the station from self-destruction when an automated Cardassian security program is accidentally activated.

While working in the station's ore processing unit, O'Brien and Jake accidentally activate an automated Cardassian security program, which traps the pair and Sisko in the room. Throughout the station, monitors display an old message from Gul Dukat warning of a Bajoran "worker revolt" in the unit. Dax tries to beam out the three, but the computer requests an access code, which the Cardassians never revealed when they abandoned the station four years ago. Jake crawls through a pipe and opens the hatch to the ore chute, allowing Sisko and O'Brien to get out just as lethal neurocine gas is released. Dukat's image reappears, announcing that the "workers" have escaped, after which the doors to Ops all slam shut!

Sisko, O'Brien, and Jake are now trapped in an ore processing bay. A force field keeps Dax, Bashir, and Kira stuck in Ops, while another one holds Odo and Quark in the Security Office. Dax inadvertently activates the security program's second level, a program designed to release neurocine gas through most of the station in five minutes. Garak suddenly arrives at Ops, using his Cardassian access code â€" which only works for him â€" to enter through the force field. At his suggestion, Kira destroys the life support system, which stops the gas and gives them twelve hours to regain control before the oxygen is depleted. Unfortunately, Kira's phaser blast has activated the third phase of the program. Dukat's recorded message now declares that the station is programmed to self-destruct in two hours.

Garak tries to make the computer think he is Dukat, but ends up initiating level four of the program â€" a series of phaser blasts which forces everyone to take cover. Then, to everyone's surprise, Gul Dukat transports into Ops to taunt the officers. But he can't leave the station when he tries, then a recorded message from his old superior, Legate Kell, appears. Dukat won't be allowed to flee his post during the "revolt," states the message â€" and his code won't stop the self-destruct.

They determine that the only option would be to reach a control junction and disengage the laser fusion initiator, but can't do anything while trapped in Ops. Meanwhile, Sisko, O'Brien, and Jake blast open the bay doors by detonating the unstable ore left inside, but are stopped from going far by more force fields. Back in Ops, Dax suggests creating a power surge to short out the force fields all over the station. The plan works, and Kira informs Sisko they have ten minutes before self-destruction. Sisko, O'Brien, and Jake have the only chance of reaching the control junction. Realizing they may not have time to disable the fusion initiator, Sisko decides instead to direct the explosion into the deflector shields. He crawls through a burning conduit, makes the adjustments, and as the destruct command is initiated, the shields absorb the blast and the station is saved.