Product Details

• Actors: Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Cirroc Lofton, Alexander Siddig, Colm Meaney
• Directors: LeVar Burton
• Writers: Hans Beimler, Gene Roddenberry, Michael Piller, Richard Danus, Rick Berman
• Producers: Hans Beimler, Ira Steven Behr
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Paramount
• VHS Release Date: October 3, 2000
• Run Time: 46 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000003K87
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #419,459 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Fun Episode, August 17, 2000

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"cowsrcool87" (Atlanta, Georgia USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Episode 81: The Sword of Kahless [VHS] (VHS Tape)

In this episode, Worf, Dax and a klingon warrior from the orginal series named Kang, try to find the mystical Klingon figure named Kahless's sword. But there is trouble when rival Klingons try to take it. This episode was fun and action packed. I definatly recommend it to Trekkies everywhere!

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This episode that really made me think!, December 8, 2000

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Rabbi Yonassan Gershom (Minnesota, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Episode 81: The Sword of Kahless [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Although some reviewers of this episode have compared the Klingon "Sword of Kahless" to Excalibur (probably because they are both swords), I had a different reaction. As a Jewish Trekker, the Sword brought to mind the biblical Ark of the Covenant -- also lost for many centuries. What would happen, I found myself asking, if the real Ark were actually found today? Like the Sword of Kahless, the Ark would give tremendous religio-political power to whomever controled it. It would also bring about the total upheaval of Israeli politics. Whether or not this was a subtext that the Trek creators actually intended, it was one which stayed with me for days. (We do, after all, tend to read our own agendas into these stories.) In the end, I found myself agreeing with Worf's decision to "lose" the Sword again in the vastness of space. Perhaps such power objects are better for questing than actually finding --- at least until a time when people would be mature enough to handle the power without becoming corrupted by it. Be it the Sword or the Ark, we are not yet ready (or worthy?) to have it. A truly thought-provoking episode!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Character actor illuminates every scene!, January 18, 2004

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Reginald D. Garrard "the G-man" (Camilla, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Episode 81: The Sword of Kahless [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The late John Colicos, one of the few actors to span the "Trek" generations, having appeared in the original and this incarnation, is magnificent as the elder "Kang". The actor's stage training is obvious in this most Shakespearean role of obsession mixed with reverential pride for a treasured part of the Klingon mythology.

He plays well off of Michael Dorn's "Worf" and it is obvious that the younger actor learned much about assaying the part of a warrior.

This is a great example of how DS9 had writers that really understood the characters and the loyal fan base of Roddenberry's creation.