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Star Trek DS9 - Season 1 - Episode 16

Star Trek DS9 - 1x16 - If Wishes Were Horses

Originally Aired: 1993-5-16

Synopsis:
When members of the station find their fantasies coming to life, it becomes the prelude to a very real danger which threatens everyone. [DVD]

My Rating - 1

Fan Rating Average - 4.01

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Filler Quotient: 3, bad filler, totally skippable.
- There's no essential plot or exposition in this episode that renders it unskippable and while the story has a few charming moments, it's mostly terrible.

Problems
- O'Brien mentions that the torpedo technology has improved over the last 200 years, but in reality the mission they were discussing took place in the 23rd century; 100 years ago, not 200 years ago.

Factoids
- This episode establishes that Changelings have no sense of smell.

Remarkable Scenes
- Julian trying to seduce Jadzia again.
- Keiko appearance.
- Molly professing that Rumplestiltskin is in her room and the look on O'Brien's face when he actually sees him there.
- Julian's first meeting with fake Jadzia.
- Odo animal herding.
- Jadzia arguing with herself.
- Morn appearances; 1. Sitting at a table in the very first scene in the background in Quarks. 2. In the same scene, he seems to have moved to the bar. 3. Walks in front of Odo when Odo tries to get the attention of the people in Quark's.

My Review
Another lame filler episode. Some of the Julian and Jadzia scenes are endearing and aliens turning out to be non-hostile is a nice change of pace, but the insufferable goofiness of the story overrides what few charming moments there are.

The following are comments submitted by my readers.

  • From Orion Pimpdaddy on 2008-11-18 at 4:30pm:
    Do we have to see Odo herding animals three times? The first time it was funny, but not the second or third.

    The conversations with the ball player were so boring!
  • From Jake on 2012-05-22 at 10:46am:
    although I agree that this was a lame episode I always thought that the alien species were the prophets trying for the first time to figure out the the way corporeal existence. Sisko even gets the baseball at the end that play a role in several important future episodes.

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