In "Civil Defense", one of Very great episodes of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", Commander Cisko (Avori Brooks), his son Akeejk (Lofton) and Chief O'Brien (Colm Meinsey) are in the rarely visited Deep Space Nine deposit, which they hope will re -renovate and make them useful. Setting up the show's space station, to remind readers, was formerly an ore processing facility, supervised by fascist cardments, and inhabited by the remains of enslaved bayran. When the military occupation of Bayor's cards ended, they left the station to the Bayran population, and the federation entered to take over the DS9 command, while Bayor was subjected to its turbulent reconstruction.

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After three years of DS9 (in the time of "civil defense"), the founding is not yet working with 100% efficiency. There are large parts of the station that need to be repaired or replaced, and many of the machines simply do not work. It was beautified to begin with, and Kardas trickedly destroyed the output of the outlet. It's all commander Cisko you can do to keep the place living. At least the promenade - with its casino/bar, chapel, shops and school - works well.

While taking advantage of the long -running depository, Cisco, Akeeke and O'Brien accidentally travel with a dating, automatic cardiac safety program. The former commander of the station, The entire timer "Star Trek" villain yellow Dukat (Mark Alayimo)It appears on the screen, announcing that they are captured after their criminal attempt to place workers' revolt. The pre-shown security message was intended for the potential avoidance of workers in Bayran, you see, and no one knows how to turn it off. Most of the "civil defense" is an episode of "escape room" in which the heroes are trying to overcome the dated security program, just to discover that they are activating more and more complicated traps of bubbles that have been hiding in D29 for years.

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But more are going on in "civil defense" than just clever to escape and mount deposits. The episode seems to indicate that the liberation of the world of fascism is not as easy as the fascists leave the room. The echoes of fascism remain.

The "Civil Defense" came out in 1994, and the creatives of the show could not guess how conscientious it would be. "Deep Space Nine" is for the wounds left by the fascist dictatorship and how the reconstruction is a long, dangerous process. Planet Bayor may get rid of cardian travelers, but the planet, in trying to build a new government, is now ready to fall into corrupt theocracy. In addition, the Kardasians argued around the surroundings in the hope that Bayor would fall again, allowing them to penetrate and occupy the planet again.

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"Civil Defense" shows that Deep Space Nine, while being actively operated by the federation for three years, has not yet been released from its original function (nor by its original evil). The station still carries the signs of slavery, oppression and genocide. Only when Cisco (Whom some AT /Film declared the best captain of Star Trek) And his Starflit associates began to see the station as a home, a deeply set security program reminded them that no, the spirit of evil is not over with them. As the episode progresses, the security program begins to get tighter and tighter. It assumes that there is a revolt of workers in Bayran, and the station raises the fields of force to keep them. The weapon appears in the replicator stations and begins to shoot at anyone who is not Kardasian (which is everyone). In the end, in real life Gul Dukat is warned of the "revolt" that is happening and coming to visit the station, mostly to strive for how wise his security program is.

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Of course, when trying to leave the station, a secondary security program is activated, assuming that it is trying to leave its function. Now, the fascist is captured in the memory of his own fascism. His automated death machines can no longer notice who should be oppressive, so it only oppresses everyone.

The message, of course, is that fascism kills you, long after you are dead. Damage remains and dissatisfactions will not disappear easily, and its threat will always remain.

It can be seen that the message that has been going on in the modern world since the 2020s, where authoritarianism seems to be growing around the world. We live in a world that barely survived World War II and still remembers the horrors of the fascist state. World War II was the ultimate betrayal of mankind's promises to himself. Our philosophical humanism was to bring us closer, not to create a sense of superiority and the need to dominate other nations. Our sciences were supposed to cure us and build a famous new world of health, travel and communication, not create unwanted eugenics and produce bombs that destroy the world. World War II was proof that we failed. Once the damage was done, the world had to be more cautious about authoritarians to move forward.

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However, the fast generation, and the lessons seem to be forgotten. Fascist security programs remained deeply embedded in human society and, according to our complacency, we accidentally activated them. There are warms and corrupt oligarchs responsible for many countries now, and many use are more aggressive language - a language that resembles evil, angry words we remember from World War II.

"Civil Defense" is a fun episode of Musutherp, of course (and my favorite episode "Deep Space Nine"). The episode writers have made technological themes smart and difficult and escaping suitable for the characters. But the episode is also a reminder that we should never be complacent on the eve of fascism. Evil is always lurking as a hidden computer virus, waiting to take the wrong step. We never want to be trapped.

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