When Commander Sisko, his son Jake and Chief O'Brien are looking into converting the old Cardassian ore refinery so they can refine deuterium the chief accidentally activates an old Cardassian security program which believes the station's long departed Bajoran workers are in revolt. Not having the required Cardassian passwords they can't deactivate it. When the people in ops try to help further security systems activate causing the com system to go off line and force fields to be erected around the station. As they trip more and more security devices it seems that the station will self destruct until Gul Dukat arrives and offers to help in exchange for permission to station a Cardassian garrison there. Kira refuses and Dukat prepares to leave; only to find himself trapped there after being accused of deserting his post. With the clock ticking Sisko and O'Brien must try to get to a console where from which they can deactivate the self destruct mechanism.
This was a decent episode which contained plenty of action and while it was inevitable that they would succeed in the end it was interesting to see how they would do it. It seemed a bit unlikely that they wouldn't have attempted to use the areas occupied by the old ore refinery before now but that is easily overlooked. Some humour was provided by having Quark trapped in Odo's office, whenever the two of them are stuck together there will be a few laughs.
This was a decent episode which contained plenty of action and while it was inevitable that they would succeed in the end it was interesting to see how they would do it. It seemed a bit unlikely that they wouldn't have attempted to use the areas occupied by the old ore refinery before now but that is easily overlooked. Some humour was provided by having Quark trapped in Odo's office, whenever the two of them are stuck together there will be a few laughs.