Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: If Wishes Were Horses

The week-long national syndication window opens for the 15th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Michael John Anderson (Twin Peaks) guest stars.

Stardate 46853.2: The strange behavior of space near the wormhole and the sudden appearance in Chief O’Brien’s quarters of a character from a bedtime story read to Molly signal the beginning of an alien study of the station’s crew from the vantage point of manifestations of their imaginations, ranging from a favorite baseball player of Sisko’s to a pair of ravishing beauties (appearing, naturally, on Quark’s arms) to the girl of Bashir’s dreams – Dax, but with a far different personality. At first the apparitions seem harmless, but it then seems that they are capable of posing a danger to the crew.

teleplay by Neil McCue Crawford & William L. Crawford and Michael Piller
story by Neil McCue Crawford & William L. Crawford
directed by Robert Legato
music by Jay Chattaway

Cast: Avery Brooks (Commander Benjamin Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Siddig El Fadil (Dr. Julian Bashir), Terry Farrell (Lt. Jadzia Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O’Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Nana Visitor (Major Kira Nerys), Rosalind Chao (Keiko), Hana Hatae (Molly), Keone Young (Buck Bokai), Michael John Anderson (Rumpelstiltskin)

LogBook entry by Earl Green