"If Wishes Were Horses" is the sixteenth episode of the first season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The episode's title comes from the saying "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride."
Quick Overview: The station is put in jeopardy when the crew's thoughts manifest themselves physically.
Quark tells Odo he needs to lighten up and have some fun, perhaps in a holosuite. Odo dismisses imagination as a sign that one is not paying attention to one's...
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"If Wishes Were Horses" is the sixteenth episode of the first season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The episode's title comes from the saying "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride."
Quick Overview: The station is put in jeopardy when the crew's thoughts manifest themselves physically.
Quark tells Odo he needs to lighten up and have some fun, perhaps in a holosuite. Odo dismisses imagination as a sign that one is not paying attention to one's real life. Quark offers to create a shapeshifter "playmate," at which point Odo declares, "You're disgusting!"
At seeing Jake Sisko walking toward a holosuite, Odo warns that Quark had better not have created any "playmates" for him. Jake's program, Quark explains, is one that includes famous baseball players from Earth. Quark has made it his business to learn about human customs and traditions because a wise man, he says, can smell profit in the wind. He tells Odo to try it. "I don't have a sense of smell," Odo says.
As Quark explains...
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