If Wishes Were Horses
| "If Wishes Were Horses" | |
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| Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 16 |
| Directed by | Robert Legato |
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| Featured music | Jay Chattaway |
| Cinematography by | Marvin Rush |
| Production code | 416 |
| Original air date | May 16, 1993 |
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"If Wishes Were Horses" is the 16th episode of the first season of the American syndicated science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The title is derived from the proverb "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride".
In this episode, people's personal thoughts and fantasies begin to manifest right before their eyes.
Quark advises Constable Odo to lighten up, perhaps in a holosuite. Odo dismisses imagination as inattention to real life. Quark offers to create for him a shapeshifter "playmate", to which Odo retorts, "You're disgusting!" Seeing the station commander's young son, Jake Sisko, approaching a holosuite, Odo warns Quark he had better not have created any playmates for him. Quark explains that Jake's program includes famous baseball players from Earth.
Dr. Julian Bashir and Lt. Jadzia Dax eat lunch. Julian wants a romantic relationship, but Jadzia politely refuses, pointing out he has also eyed other women. Dax returns to Ops, from where she observes elevated emissions in the nearby Denorius Belt. She and Commander Sisko hypothesize this to be due to the high amount of traffic at Deep Space Nine.
Chief O'Brien reads to his daughter Molly the story Rumpelstiltskin and tucks her into bed. Shortly, she comes out of her room and claims Rumpelstiltskin is inside. O'Brien and his wife Keiko patiently return with her and find that Rumpelstiltskin is indeed in her room. Elsewhere, an alternate Jadzia attempts to seduce Bashir in his quarters, and Buck Bokai, a 21st Century baseball player who in 2026 broke Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak, has followed Jake from the holodeck.
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