PATRON TIER LIST - DS9 S3E7 - Civil Defense

B+ or A-. The plot hole here strains credibility (it would have been an excellent S1 episode, it's not that believable they would run Cardassian code anymore by S3), but otherwise, it's just an amazing episode. Gul Dukat gets to be a magnificent bastard before he's hoisted by his own petard.

Strong S. It's one of my favourites of the Season.

S tier for me! I love the constant escalation from minor annoyance to eminent destruction and how Dukhat gets swept up in it, first gloating and prancing but then he's in just as much trouble! And the call-back (perhaps unintentional) to the bridge defense phaser system in TAS has a warm place in my heart.

Sometimes a banger bangs so hard on the door it becomes an A. This is one of those times. I can't massively justify it but there's something about the flavour combinations in each story: Dukut Vs Garak Vs A replicator, The old faithful Odo and Quark, and Jake's my two Dads in the ore processor of doom adventure. Just fun can be enough.

Bajoran Workers, this is a B! Comply with this rating, and you will not be harmed. Rejecting this message will not be tolerated. The first half is an A, with these great Dukat and Garak rivalry scenes. But in the second half, after Dukat is locked out of the system, the episode slows down to C-tier. Average B.

It's a nice variation on the standard disaster episode. Emphasising the characters over the mechanics of the looming disaster. So that's refreshing. It still is a standard story concept for TV all the same.

A! Just a very good solid episode!

This episode is a hoot. Lots of great character beats and the birth of the Attention Bajoran Workers meme. 9/10.

First S-tier of the show from me!

A tier for me.

an A because you have to curve DOWN for all the real S Tiers that start hitting from here through the end of Season 7

it's a fun episode but not a personal fave. so I give it a B+

Very very solid A tier imo, boreline S!

Dukat seemed more upset with Garak for revealing his attraction to Kira than betraying his father. The man has his priorities right.

A-tier for me. I like that someone in the Cardassian high command was like "Look we know starfleet sympathizes with Bajor and we know that Starfleet officers have an uncanny ability to solve their way out of every problem and space phenomena they encounter on a weekly basis. So you'd better make this automated security system with a series of redundant and escalating levels of danger to counter those little shits." Also Garak and Dukat level the entire episode up signficantly. Dukat's smug, petty little way of sitting down in Sisko's chair and flicking his baseball off the desk is incredibly on point. And then the sad trombone when the program turns on him.

A quality but the humor brings it up to an S

While I thoroughly enjoyed the escalating levels of peril everyone found themselves in, it's the "Attention Bajoran Workers" meme that will live on through eternity. For that alone, this episode deserves an "A"