STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
"If Wishes Were Horses"
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Story by
Nell McCue Crawford & William Crawford
Teleplay by
Nell McCue Crawford & William Crawford
and
Michael Piller
Directed by
Rob Legato
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FEBRUARY 24, 1993
STAR TREK: DS9 - "If Wishes Were... " - 11/25/92 - CAST
STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
"If Wishes Were Horses"
CAST
SISKO RUMPELSTILTSKIN
KIRA BUCK
ODO VARIOUS VOICES
QUARK VOICE
BASHIR
DAX
JAKE
O'BRIEN
KEIKO
MOLLY
COMPUTER VOICE
Non-Speaking
STAR TREK: DS9 - "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - SETS
STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
"If Wishes Were Horses"
SETS
INTERIORS EXTERIORS
DEEP SPACE NINE DEEP SPACE NINE
PROMENADE
QUARK'S RUPTURE
REPLIMAT
OPS
SECURITY OFFICE
SCIENCE LAB
TURBOLIFT
COMMANDER'S OFFICE
SISKO'S QUARTERS
O'BRIEN'S QUARTERS
MOLLY'S BEDROOM
LIVING AREA
BASHIR'S QUARTERS
STAR TREK: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - PRONUNCIATION
STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
"If Wishes Were Horses"
PRONUNCIATION GUIDE
BANERIAM bah-NAYR-ee-ahm
BOKAI boh-KI
GUNJI JACKDAW GOON-jee JAHK-daw
HANOLI hah-NOH-lee
LAROSIAN lah-R0H-zee-an
STADIUS STAY-dee-uhs
TARTARAN tar-TAYR-ahn
THORON THOHR-ohn
TRIS trihs
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - TEASER 1.
STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
"If Wishes Were Horses... "
TEASER
FADE IN:
1 EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL)
2 INT. QUARK'S
QUARK behind the bar; ODO watching the room from his usual
seat with intensity. It's pretty empty.
QUARK
Can't you ever just... let go?
ODO
Let go?
QUARK
The place is almost deserted... there
hasn't been a ship in for three
days... and yet you just sit here
like a Baneriam Hawk looking for
prey. This is your chance to relax.
(beat)
I could fix you up with a terrific
holosuite program.
ODO
Thank you, but I don't accept gifts
from the likes of you.
QUARK
Who said anything about gifts? You
pay like anyone else. I'm just trying
to get you into the tent.
ODO
I have no time for fantasies.
QUARK
Ah. No imagination, huh?
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 2/25/93 - TEASER 2.
2 CONTINUED:
ODO
Waste of time. Too many people dream
of places they'll never go, wish for
things they'll never have... instead
of paying adequate attention to their
real lives...
QUARK
(more intimate)
I could create a shape-shifter
playmate for you... the two of you
could... intermingle...
ODO
You're disgusting.
QUARK
(shrugs)
It's a living.
3 ANGLE - TO SEE JAKE
going upstairs toward the holosuites with a baseball mitt on
one hand and a baseball bat. He does not acknowledge them.
ODO
You're not allowing young Mister
Sisko in your holosuites, I hope...
QUARK
It's not what you think...
ODO
It better not be.
QUARK
You see that thing on his hand... ?
It's a baseball mitten. Every
afternoon, the boy goes up to play.
His father brought a program with
famous players... you ever hear of
Tris Speaker or Ted Williams or Buck
Bokai?
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - TEASER 3.
3 CONTINUED:
ODO
Afraid not.
QUARK
Neither had I until I made it my
business to find out. With all these
humans coming now... a true
entrepreneur knows how to sniff the
wind...
He sniffs for emphasis... Odo studies him dryly...
QUARK
Try it. Go ahead...
ODO
I have no sense of smell.
QUARK
You don't need one to detect the
scent of op-por-tun-itee.
ODO
Opportunity.
QUARK
Family entertainment. That's the
future, Odo. There's a fortune to
be made. Little holo-creatures
running around... rides and games
for the kiddies... Ferengis at every
doorway selling useless souvenirs...
ODO
(dry)
You're replacing all your sexual
holo-programs with family
entertainment...
QUARK
No, no, no, no, no... I'm expanding...
I'm negotiating to lease the space
next door so I can use the same holo-
generators...
Getting up to leave...
ODO
You're still disgusting.
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - TEASER 4.
3 CONTINUED: (2)
QUARK
Till the day I die.
4 NEW ANGLE
as he smiles... Odo EXITS... and as he leaves we find DAX
and BASHIR sitting at a table...
DAX
I'm sure you're exaggerating...
BASHIR
You're constantly in my thoughts...
I can't concentrate...
DAX
You seemed to be concentrating just
fine on that junior lieutenant at
the reception for Captain Stadius...
BASHIR
She was a poor substitute for you...
DAX
And that Betazoid envoy who was here
last week...
BASHIR
A... barely adequate substitute for
you...
DAX
Julian, you're a wonderful friend.
BASHIR
(pained at the sound
of that)
Argh.
DAX
I enjoy the time we spend together.
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - TEASER 5.
4 CONTINUED:
BASHIR
Stop... you're driving a stake through
my heart.
She smiles, stands...
DAX
Try a high-pitched sonic shower.
It'll make you feel better.
And she leaves...
BASHIR
No it won't.
(beat, to himself)
I've already tried it.
Off his usual sigh of frustration...
5 INT. OPS
SISKO and KIRA studying a monitor at a console... various
supernumeraries busy at their stations. Dax ENTERS.
DAX
Sorry I'm late. I was having dinner
with Julian.
SISKO
(offhanded)
How is our young doctor?
DAX
Young.
(beat)
Anything going on?
KIRA
We were just looking at an unusual
energy reading...
Dax looks, reacts curious --
DAX
Elevated thoron emissions in the
plasma field...
SISKO
We thought it might be an
environmental byproduct created by
the increased traffic to this area...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - TEASER 6.
5 CONTINUED:
DAX
(studies the readings)
Could be. Ships have always avoided
the Denorios Belt... we have no idea
how the presence of so many warp and
impulse engines might affect it.
Question is -- is this going to cause
us any problems?
KIRA
(good-naturedly)
We were hoping you'd tell us.
Dax acknowledges good-naturedly... moves to her station.
6 INT. O'BRIEN'S QUARTERS - MOLLY'S BEDROOM
KEIKO watches as O'BRIEN reads MOLLY a bedtime story from a
child's PADD...
O'BRIEN
... and the messenger from the Queen
watched the little man as he danced
and sang and laughed how he would
soon have the daughter he always
wanted... because they would never
guess that his name was...
MOLLY
...Rumpelstiltskin...
O'BRIEN
... Rumpelstiltskin, right... and the
next day when the little man came
and asked, "Now Mrs. Queen, what is
my name?" She said at first, "Are
you called Jack?" "No," he answered.
"Are you called Harry?" she asked
again. "No," he answered. And then
she said, "Then perhaps your name
is... "
MOLLY
Rumpelstiltskin...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 2/25/93 - TEASER 7.
6 CONTINUED:
O'BRIEN
And at the sound of his own name,
the old man was so furious that he
stamped his foot into the ground
shaking the entire kingdom, broke in
two and disappeared and the King and
Queen and their daughter lived happily
ever after.
(closing the book)
Good night, little one. Sweet dreams.
O'Brien gently kisses his daughter on the forehead.
MOLLY
I'm not tired!
KEIKO
Uh uh, none of that now.
Molly snuggles deeper into her covers as Keiko kisses her as
O'Brien turns off the lamp and they EXIT into...
7 INT. O'BRIEN'S QUARTERS - LIVING AREA
Keiko and O'Brien enjoy a quiet moment together.
O'BRIEN
Now then, should I tuck you in with
a bedtime story too... ?
KEIKO
As long as you're tucked in with me.
They move closer to each other, but behind them, we see
Molly come out of her room. They stop, react...
MOLLY
Mommy...
KEIKO
What is it, honey?
MOLLY
He's in my room.
KEIKO
Who?
MOLLY
Rumpelstiltskin.
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - TEASER 8.
O'BRIEN
Sweetheart, that was just a make
believe story. Rumpelstiltskin isn't
real, okay?
Molly stands there adamantly, obviously not buying it.
O'Brien looks at Keiko... this will just take a minute...
O'BRIEN
All right. I'll come in and check.
But after that, it's bedtime.
O'Brien takes Molly by the hand and leads her into her room...
a throwaway over his shoulder to Keiko --
O'BRIEN
I don't know why we tell her stories
about evil dwarfs who want to steal
children...
But on the last word...
8 INT. O'BRIEN'S QUARTERS - MOLLY'S BEDROOM
Close on O'Brien's startled face as he ENTERS and sees...
9 NEW ANGLE
RUMPELSTILTSKIN sitting on Molly's bed...
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
Don't look so distraught. I'm only
here to offer you my services... if
you should need them.
And on O'Brien's reaction, we...
FADE OUT.
END OF TEASER
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " REV. 2/25/93 - ACT ONE 9.
ACT ONE
FADE IN:
(NOTE: Episode credits fall over opening scenes)
10 INT. O'BRIEN'S QUARTERS - LIVING AREA
O'Brien ENTERS from Molly's room, carrying his daughter. He
hands her to Keiko.
O'BRIEN
Take her outside.
KEIKO
What's wrong?
The dwarf ENTERS, strolling casually out of the bedroom.
She reacts.
KEIKO
Miles...
O'BRIEN
Just go.
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
A pity you're sending the ladies
away. It's as if all the life just
went out of the room.
O'BRIEN
(hits combadge)
O'Brien to Security... intruder
alert... send a team to my quarters
immediately.
The dwarf searches the room, poking his nose into everything.
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
So where's the straw... ?
(off O'Brien's non-
phased look)
I assume you need some gold spun out
of straw...
O'BRIEN
What are you?
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
Surely you know -- you were just
telling the little one all about
me...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 2/25/93 - ACT ONE 10.
10 CONTINUED:
O'BRIEN
I know what you look like... but
you're not...
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
Ah ah, don't say it... I don't like
the sound of it you know...
O'BRIEN
Rumpelstiltskin.
The dwarf shivers uncomfortably, then glances back at
O'Brien...
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
You didn't think that would make me
break in two and disappear, did you?
(O'Brien looks at him
evenly)
Not this time. I learned my lesson
back in the kingdom. I don't make
deals like that any more.
O'Brien's doors open and two Security men ENTER with phasers
ready.
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
Ah, the local constabularies...
(to the Security team)
Gents, give me a small bit of courtesy
and I'll be very pleasant, but if
you try to lay a hand on me, you'll
soon regret it.
11 NEW ANGLE (OPTICAL)
to reveal the dwarf is suddenly behind them, sitting in
O'Brien's favorite chair.
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
Besides, I'm much too fast for you.
Now, my good host, if gold is not
your pleasure, tell me your needs
and I'll tell you my price...
O'BRIEN
(hits his combadge)
O'Brien to Sisko.
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - ACT ONE 11.
11 CONTINUED:
SISKO'S COM VOICE
Go ahead, Chief.
O'BRIEN
I need you down in my quarters...
12 INT. SISKO'S QUARTERS
On Sisko relaxing, feet up, reading a PADD, as he reacts
curiously...
O'BRIEN
(continuing)
... On the double.
SISKO
I'm on my way.
He gets up, moves toward the door but as it opens, it reveals
Jake arriving... an urgent look on his face...
JAKE
Dad, I've got to talk to you...
SISKO
I don't have time, Jake, I...
His words stop as Jake makes way for another arriving guest...
a Japanese baseball player (BUCK BOKAI) in full (London Kings)
uniform and glove...
BUCK
Hello, Ben.
Sisko doesn't answer, looks dumbfounded at Jake for an
answer...
JAKE
(befuddled)
He followed me home from the
holosuite.
Buck flashes Sisko a good-natured grin. Off Sisko's
reaction...
13 INT. BASHIR'S QUARTERS
Close on Bashir's face as he sleeps. A beat... then a woman's
hand reaches into frame and strokes his face. Bashir stirs,
waking... a half smile, then... he opens his eyes and we
pull back to reveal...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - ACT ONE 12.
14 DAX
sitting by the side of Bashir's bed, smiling lovingly at
Bashir.
Bashir sits up suddenly.
BASHIR
(shocked)
Jadzia!
DAX
(purrs)
Hello, Julian.
BASHIR
What are you doing here?
DAX
(leans closer)
Watching you... waiting for you to
wake up.
She kisses him. His eyes never close...
BASHIR
I'm awake.
He gets up, moves away from her...
DAX
Is something wrong?
BASHIR
Funny, I was just going to ask you
the same question.
He looks for his tricorder, finds it...
BASHIR
A Larosian virus has been going
around.
(feels her forehead)
How do you feel?
DAX
(moving in for another
kiss)
Wonderful.
Bashir keeps his hand on Dax's forehead, simultaneously
checking for a fever and fending her off... examines her
with a tricorder in his other hand...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - ACT ONE 13.
14 CONTINUED:
BASHIR
No fever...
(points the tricorder
at himself)
It must be me... some kind of allergic
reaction to the replicated antipasto
from lunch perhaps... I must be
hallucinating...
But all seems normal...
DAX
Why are you fighting this?
BASHIR
Why am I fighting this? Why am I
fighting this... I have no good answer
to that question...
She kisses him again... and he's almost about to go with it
when...
KIRA'S COM VOICE
All senior officers... report to Ops
immediately.
They break... Bashir does a take, looks at Dax --
BASHIR
Okay, I get it. Very funny. Did
O'Brien put you up to it?
DAX
I don't know what you're talking
about.
BASHIR
"Senior officers report to Ops"...
we walk in, everyone has a good laugh
at my expense...
DAX
This is not a joke, Julian...
BASHIR
(convinced)
We'll see...
And he EXITS and she follows...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - ACT ONE 14.
15 INT. OPS
Coming up from the point of view of the rising Turbolift to
reveal Sisko, Kira, O'Brien standing with Buck and the dwarf
(who is sitting on the table), security guards keeping an eye
on them... looking over to see who's arriving...
16 ANGLE -- THE TURBOLIFT
with Dax and Bashir aboard. Bashir reacts to the strange
sight of the two visitors, glances to Sisko for an
explanation... Dax has a more even-mannered response...
SISKO
(to Bashir & Dax)
It seems we have a small mystery on
our hands... Lieutenant Jadzia Dax,
Doctor Julian Bashir... I'd like you
to meet Harmon Bokai, a baseball
player for the London Kings who's
been dead for two hundred years...
Bashir looks to him...
BUCK
Don't look at me -- I can't figure
it out either...
SISKO
And a medieval fairy tale character
named Rumpelstiltskin...
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
Oh fine, now everyone knows my name...
SISKO
Until today, he's only existed in
storybooks.
BASHIR
(astonished)
A pleasure... I'm sure.
SISKO
(to Dax)
Could this be related to the increased
thoron emissions in the plasma field?
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 2/25/93 - ACT ONE 15.
DAX #2
Thoron emissions?
DAX'S VOICE
I think you'd better ask me,
Benjamin...
Reactions as they all turn to see --
17 NEW ANGLE (OPTICAL) -- ANOTHER DAX
has arrived... and as she moves to examine her double...
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT ONE
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - ACT TWO 16.
ACT TWO
FADE IN:
18 INT. OPS
As before. A minute later. Bashir examines Bokai with a
tricorder as he tries to explain...
BUCK
I was hitting a few to the boy...
he's really been moving under the
ball well lately, Ben... and we
would've worked on some baserunning
except he was getting hungry... and
then I realized I was too...
KIRA
(reacts)
A hologram with an appetite?
BUCK
Hologram?
BASHIR
(re: tricorder)
On the contrary, Major, he's quite
real. They all seem to be.
The fake Dax hereafter known as Dax #2 is hanging on his arm
with intimacy... he keeps shrugging her away...
BUCK
What the hell are they talking about,
Ben?
Sisko looks around, uncomfortable, confused, trying to figure
out how to talk to this entity... and there is also a little
bit of the awkwardness that comes with confronting one's
heroes... yes, he has been with Buck in the holosuite, but
that's in a baseball fantasy environment... now he's here in
Sisko's world...
SISKO
You... you're not actually Buck Bokai.
BUCK
(reacts, joking)
Then how come I'm wearing his uniform?
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - ACT TWO 18.
18 CONTINUED:
SISKO
You're a holographic image of Buck
Bokai that I created so Jake and I
could play ball with you...
BUCK
(confused, astonished)
But I remember. I remember all the
games, all the opening days, the
home run that won the forty-two world
series... the squeaker that went
under Eddie Newsom's glove the day I
broke Dimaggio's consecutive streak...
SISKO
(almost apologetic)
I programmed it into the computer...
all of it... every statistic.
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
(To O'Brien)
What foreign tongue are they
speaking... ?
O'Brien ignores the question, but the voice turns Sisko's
attention to him...
O'BRIEN
(re: the dwarf)
This one didn't come out of any
holosuite...
SISKO
(a thoughtful beat)
But he did come out of your
imagination just like Buck came out
of Jake's...
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
His imagination?
DAX #2
(smiles proudly)
Then I must have come out of your
imagination, Julian...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 2/25/93 - ACT TWO 18.
18 CONTINUED: (2)
BASHIR
(embarrassed)
Not necessarily... well, maybe...
Glancing at Dax... who studies him evenly... he shrugs off
the duplicate off his arm again... desperately changing the
subject...
BASHIR
... How could this sort of thing
possibly happen... ?
DAX
(very concerned)
A subspace disruption maybe, some
kind of dimensional shift...
As she moves toward her station to check readings... O'Brien
glances around to see the dwarf has disappeared... he looks
around...
DAX
(continuing)
I didn't see an anomaly when I scanned
the plasma field... but it could
have been so small that the sensors
missed it...
19 ANGLE (OPTICAL)
DAX #2
(sotto)
Julian, let's go to your quarters...
As she smothers him with physical attention again... he pushes
her away more forcefully...
BASHIR
Please... I don't have time for...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - ACT TWO 19.
20 NEW ANGLE
as he turns to confront her -- she's gone...
BASHIR
(reacts)
... this?
ODO'S COM VOICE
Odo to Sisko.
SISKO
Go ahead...
ODO'S COM VOICE
Is there something you want to tell
me?
SISKO
I'm in no mood for games, Constable.
What do you need?
INTERCUT:
21 INT. REPLIMAT
It's snowing out in the Promenade. People are moving inside
brushing snow off their clothes, shocked at the phenomenon.
ODO
Have the environmental controls broken
down? It's snowing on the Promenade.
SISKO'S COM VOICE
Snowing...
ODO
We're looking at five or six
centimeters down here.
22 INT. OPS
Reactions...
SISKO
Bring in all available security,
Odo... we're going to yellow alert...
ODO'S COM VOICE
What's going on...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 3/04/93 - ACT TWO 20.
22 CONTINUED:
SISKO
It seems we're letting our
imaginations run wild. I'll give
you an explanation as soon as I have
one... Sisko out...
KIRA
Yellow alert against our own
imaginations?
SISKO
(not hard)
You have a better idea?
O'BRIEN
The baseball player. He's gone now,
too.
They look around and notice that Buck has disappeared.
DAX
I think I've got something... look
at the wave patterns of the plasma
field...
Sisko, Kira and Bashir move to her console... O'Brien to
his...
23 ANGLE - MONITOR (VPB)
The patterns show an odd formation, with the tiniest
centerpoint entirely black...
O'BRIEN
The wave fronts are converging toward
a single point...
DAX
The particle density rises as you
get closer to the center... but then
it looks like it drops off
completely...
O'BRIEN
You're right. I'm not picking up
any particulate readings at the
core...
KIRA
What does that mean?
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 3/04/93 - ACT TWO 20A.
23 CONTINUED:
DAX
Whatever falls in there... is just
gone.
BASHIR
(to Dax)
Then you were right... it is some
kind of subspace disruption...
SISKO
I want a full analysis... Chief, get
a class four probe ready...
O'BRIEN
Aye, sir...
As O'Brien turns to the back of his station, the dwarf is
there again, sitting on the console...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - ACT TWO 21.
23 CONTINUED: (2)
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
Anything I can do to help?
O'Brien frowns, steps around him and goes to work...
ODO'S COM VOICE
Odo to Ops...
SISKO
Go ahead...
23A INT. PROMENADE
The snow is gone... but an ostrich-like bird is moving down
the thoroughfare...
ODO
The snow's disappeared... but now
there's a Gunji jackdaw running loose
down here...
SISKO'S COM VOICE
Just try to keep things under control,
Odo... we're working on it...
ODO
Understood...
24 INT. QUARK'S
Odo ENTERS, hearing cheers...
VARIOUS VOICES
Dabo! Come on... eight straight
passes. Double down dabo... I can't
lose today... throw them again...
come on... come on... one more dabo
for daddy...
He looks around with concern... finally picks up a mug and
slams it on the counter...
ODO
Ladies and gentlemen... and all
androgynous species... may I have
your attention, please... Your
attention please!
People turn quiet and look at him...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - ACT TWO 21A.
24 CONTINUED:
ODO
As you may have noticed, we're
experiencing some... difficulties...
I'm going to have to ask you all to
please refrain from using your
imaginations...
Walla reactions...
QUARK (O.S.)
Just because you don't have an
imagination, don't ruin it for the
rest of us...
As Odo looks up toward the stairs... people go back to
gambling...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 2/24/93 - ACT TWO 22.
25 ANGLE
to see Quark coming down the stairs with two scantily clad
women... they descend the stairs like Dean Martin and the
Goldiggers, the women stroking Quark's ears and fawning over
him...
QUARK
Let me guess. Another clever
Federation experiment has gone awry
and you accidently turned the whole
station into one vast holosuite...
ODO
The phenomenon is being investigated
as we speak.
QUARK
Well, tell them to take their time...
I haven't had the chance to show the
ladies my collection of Tartaran
landscapes yet...
ODO
I'm surprised by your attitude,
Quark...
QUARK
You simply don't have the same
appreciation for... art as I do...
ODO
I'm surprised because every one of
your customers is winning...
QUARK
What?
ODO
They're taking you to the poor-
house...
VOICE
Dabo... another winner...
QUARK
No... no... that's not possible...
Moving away from the women to the tables... hands to his
temples, concentrating...
QUARK
Lose... lose... one cross... two
cross...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 2/25/93 - ACT TWO xx23
25 CONTINUED:
VOICE
Dabo! Another winner!
QUARK
No!
ODO
(pleased)
You're outnumbered, Quark.
He EXITS through the women...
ODO
Pardon me.
As another table cheers a winner to Quark's dismay...
26 INT. SCIENCE LAB (VPB)
Dax and Bashir working on consoles... there is an unstated
tension between them...
DAX
I was afraid of this... The proximity
of the wormhole is amplifying the
rupture...
BASHIR
The proton counts are going through
the roof...
DAX
Dax to O'Brien. How are you coming
with that probe, Chief?
O'BRIEN'S COM VOICE
I'll have the subspace scanners
programmed in less than an hour...
DAX
Keep me informed... Dax out.
BASHIR
I have the wave intensity analysis...
She moves to his console... looks... frowns...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 2/25/93 - ACT TWO 24.
26 CONTINUED:
DAX
Computer, scan all data files for
comparable wave intensity patterns...
COMPUTER VOICE
Stand by.
A moment of silence raises their interpersonal tension...
BASHIR
Jadzia, this is difficult to say,
but I want you to know...
DAX
(cutting him off)
Julian, there's really no need to
apologize...
She smiles at him and he looks relieved.
DAX
In a way, I feel as if we've invaded
your privacy. We all have fantasies
and dreams that we keep to ourselves.
Thoughts that should remain private.
BASHIR
I'm glad you understand.
DAX
Of course I do. I was a young man
once.
BASHIR
Then we can put it behind us?
DAX
Of course.
Dax turns back to her work. Bashir feels much better.
BASHIR
Good.
(back to work)
The computer seems to be having
trouble finding a match...
DAX
She really is submissive, isn't she...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - ACT TWO 25.
26 CONTINUED: (2)
DAX
(turns to Bashir)
Is that how you'd like me to be,
Julian? So... submissive?
Bashir's flustered. To make matters worse, as he gropes for
a response...
27 NEW ANGLE (OPTICAL)
to reveal Dax #2 is there...
DAX #2
I am not submissive...
(to Bashir)
... am I?
BASHIR
(awkward)
N-no, I don't think so...
DAX #2
I'm just not the cold fish you are...
DAX
Cold fish...
BASHIR
Now, I never said that...
DAX #2
If you'd get down off your high horse,
you'd start to appreciate Julian...
BASHIR
(trying hard to make
light of all this)
She has a sense of humor as... as
I've always imagined you do...
DAX
I could use one about now...
DAX #2
Come on, Lieutenant... stop denying
all those yearnings you feel...
DAX
(dry)
Yearnings.
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 2/25/93 - ACT TWO 26.
27 CONTINUED:
DAX #2
(as she cozies up to
the humiliated Bashir)
If you don't, you'll never know what
you missed.
COMPUTER VOICE
Pattern match found.
BASHIR
Just in the nick of time.
DAX
Not quite.
And as they turn to the monitor... Dax presses some panels...
looks at a monitor...
DAX
A similar subspace rupture was
reported in the Hanoli System in the
mid twenty-third century...
BASHIR
Hanoli system... I don't believe I
know where that is...
DAX
There's no reason you should.
She takes a solemn beat... and this is her own personal
knowledge... not off the screen.
DAX
When that rupture exploded, the system
was destroyed...
And on Julian and Dax #2's reaction...
28 OMITTED
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT TWO
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - ACT THREE 27.
ACT THREE
FADE IN:
29 EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL)
A probe is launched.
SISKO (V.O.)
Station log, Stardate 46853.2. We
have launched a probe to study the
subspace anomaly. Meanwhile, more
than half the people aboard DS Nine
have reported manifestations of their
imagined thoughts.
30 INT. OPS
Kira at her station, O'Brien in the pit, working panels,
reading figures...
KIRA
All probe systems are reading
normal...
O'BRIEN
Calibrating sensors for subspace...
Three minutes to coordinates...
INTERCUT:
31 INT. SCIENCE LAB (VPB)
Sisko and Bashir are looking over Dax's shoulder at a console
at an Okudagram...
DAX
Wave patterns should begin to
fluctuate any time now... there...
32 INT. OPS
O'Brien hits some switches...
O'BRIEN
Probe is penetrating the thoron
field... two and a half minutes to
coordinates...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - ACT THREE 28.
32 CONTINUED:
As he moves to another console, find the dwarf sitting on
the edge of the pit with his legs dangling down...
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
Ah, for simpler times, eh?
O'Brien glances at him... ignores him. The dwarf hops down
into the pit...
O'BRIEN
Shoo!
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
I only want to help.
O'BRIEN
You're in the way.
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
A farmer in Chester once tried to
chase me off until I saved his crops
from locusts...
O'BRIEN
(ignoring him)
Two minutes to coordinates... thoron
emissions are stable...
The dwarf studies him a beat and there is a certain
malevolence behind the charm...
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
You know what I find most intriguing
about you, my good host?
(beat)
You're afraid... of me.
O'BRIEN
Look, you figment... I don't fear
any man... least of all you...
(to com)
Ninety seconds to coordinates...
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
A figment, am I...
O'BRIEN
Just a figment of my imagination,
that's all.
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - ACT THREE 28A.
32 CONTINUED: (2)
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
And yet you can't deny how this
imagination of yours empowers me,
can you? Empowers me in a way that
somehow terrifies you...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 2/25/93 - ACT THREE 29.
32 CONTINUED: (3)
And O'Brien is desperately trying to cut off his worst
fears, his paranoia, the work, stay with the work...
O'BRIEN
You should be getting some preliminary
data, Commander...
SISKO'S COM VOICE
They're coming in now, Chief... stand-
by...
33 ANGLE
Close on O'Brien...
RUMPELSTILTSKIN (O.S.)
She is your first born, isn't she?
And O'Brien's head snaps in rage... the fear and danger that
any parent feels for the safety of their child spilling over
his face... but move to reveal... the dwarf is gone. O'Brien,
flustered by the inability to express his anger, turns back
to his controls...
O'BRIEN
Thirty seconds to coordinates...
34 INT. LAB - CLOSE ON OKUDAGRAM (VPB)
as the probe enters the anomaly... the screen begins to fill
up with numbers as readouts begin...
35 CLOSE ON DAX
Panning to closeups on Bashir and Sisko...
DAX
Thoron emission patterns unstable...
probe hull temperature dropping
rapidly...
O'BRIEN'S COM VOICE
Ten seconds...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 2/25/93 - ACT THREE 30.
36 THE OKUDAGRAM (VPB)
As the probe reaches the center of the anomaly... all the
numbers drop to nil... a straight tone suggests no readings...
SISKO
What is it...
37 DAX
DAX
(concerned)
Negative readings on all sensors...
we may be looking at some sort of
folded space...
SISKO
Let's see what the optical scanner
on the probe gives us...
She does...
38 THE OKUDAGRAM (OPTICAL)
shows a huge swirling, sucking graphic... space matter falling
into it...
BASHIR
It's drawing in all the matter from
the surrounding space...
DAX
(off another console)
Benjamin, it's getting larger.
Off Sisko's reaction...
39 INT. PROMENADE - SECOND FLOOR
Sisko ENTERS from a corridor with purpose...
BUCK (O.S.)
Feel like taking a few ground balls?
Sisko pauses, turns to see --
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - ACT THREE 31.
40 ANGLE
Buck beside him... wearing a mitt and popping a ball lightly
into it... Sisko hasn't got time for this, he moves on...
Buck stays in stride... and he's extremely likeable.
SISKO
Look, I tried to tell you... you're
on a space station... in the twenty-
fourth century... the only ball field
around is a holographic simulation --
it's not real... and neither are
you...
BUCK
See, I don't get it... I can pinch
myself and it hurts... I am here
with you, aren't I... ?
SISKO
Right now you are... in a minute,
who knows?
(beat, sighs)
I'm hoping when we get this thing
figured out... you'll...
BUCK
Disappear for good?
SISKO
I hope so...
BUCK
(almost sorry, doesn't
quite buy it)
You do, huh.
(beat)
Okay, but let's say for a moment I
don't. What am I supposed to do
then? You got room on your team for
a switch hitting third baseman with
good power... ?
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - ACT THREE 32.
40 CONTINUED:
They move to a stairway... Sisko laughs lightly, relaxes
a little, allows himself the slightest moment to look at
Buck in a more personal way...
SISKO
Good power from the left side.
They go down...
41 ANGLE - ON THE STAIRS
Going down...
BUCK
What are you talking about. I hit
over twenty homers righthanded in
each of my first three years in the
majors...
SISKO
And never more than ten after that...
BUCK
That was only after Old Crow moved
me to second in the order...
Sisko studies him affectionately, smiles a beat... as they
reach...
41A ANGLE - THE TURBOLIFT
SISKO
I wish I had more time for this.
BUCK
Yeah, well that was baseball's
epitaph, wasn't it... nobody seemed
to have time for us anymore... I
could've played five more years if
they hadn't killed the game...
SISKO
You were the best that ever played,
Buck... I know -- I've played with
them all.
The door opens... Sisko gets on...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 2/25/93 - ACT THREE 33.
41A CONTINUED:
SISKO
(friendly)
I've got work to do.
BUCK
Yeah. Hey, Ben.
(beat, sincere)
It's always meant a lot to me. How
much you cared. You know the day we
won that world series, there were
only three hundred people in the
stands.
SISKO
Three hundred and one in my version.
BUCK
I heard you cheering. It meant a
lot to me. I just thought you should
know. You know, in case I do finally
disappear.
Sisko nods... gives him an intimate look... and moves his
attention to the job at hand...
SISKO
Ops...
The doors close... we stay a beat on Buck...
42 OMITTED
43 INT. REPLIMAT (OPTICAL)
No one's here but as they begin to speak, each one appears:
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
We don't know any more than when we
started.
DAX #2
Why would mine create a woman and
then reject her?
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - ACT THREE 34.
43 CONTINUED:
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
Why would mine create a dwarf who
could terrify him? We should abandon
the whole thing.
BUCK
Not yet. I've made a connection
with mine. A curious one. I sensed
a feeling from him... an affection
for this ballplayer who died two
hundred years before he was even
born.
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
(impatient)
How much longer do you suggest we
devote to this?
BUCK
As long as it takes.
(beat, thoughtful)
It ain't over til it's over.
Off reactions...
44 OMITTED
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT THREE
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 2/25/93 - ACT FOUR 35.
ACT FOUR
FADE IN:
45 EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL)
46 INT. COMMANDER'S OFFICE (VPB)
Sisko, Kira, O'Brien, Dax, Bashir. Sisko's at his desk.
The monitor is on, O'Brien and Dax have PADDS... they have
been studying up on this, they refer to the PADD but don't
read --
O'BRIEN
A Vulcan science mission to the Hanoli
rift detonated a pulse wave torpedo
at the coordinates of the tear...
DAX
Five minutes after they did, the
rupture expanded radically...
O'BRIEN
They were wiped out along with the
entire Hanoli system...
KIRA
What happened to the rupture after
that... it's not still there... ?
(implied: is it?)
DAX
It reached a critical mass point and
imploded... and then disappeared
from normal space altogether.
SISKO
(mind working)
Were there any reports from the
Vulcans about hallucinations on board?
Anything similar to what we're
experiencing?
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - ACT FOUR 36.
46 CONTINUED:
O'BRIEN
Nossir. But they were only within
range of the anomaly for twelve
hours...
BASHIR
And Vulcans don't have the most active
imaginations...
SISKO
Were there any explanations offered
for the initial cause of the rupture?
DAX
Dozens. Nothing confirmed. But we
do know there were no wormholes and
very little starship activity in the
area before it formed.
O'BRIEN
(to Sisko)
We've looked high and low for some
common ground... something to give
us a fix on how to attack this
thing... frankly, sir, as funny as
it sounds, we think pulse wave
torpedoes may still be the best
approach...
KIRA
Wait a minute... it didn't work very
well last time... why...
O'BRIEN
(interrupting)
The Vulcans were using a primitive
device... in two hundred years, we've
developed far better ways of
controlling the flux density... we
might be able to contain the internal
reaction this time...
KIRA
And if we can't, we'll destroy the
whole Bajoran system...
SISKO
Major, the rupture is already
expanding... we have to seal it or
it's going to destroy this system
anyway...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - ACT FOUR 37.
46 CONTINUED: (2)
DAX
The smaller it is, the better chance
we have.
Kira reluctantly accepts it.
SISKO
How long will it take to create one
of these torpedoes?
O'BRIEN
We could have one ready by twenty-
two hundred hours...
SISKO
(acknowledges, standing)
If the rift expands at all before
imploding, we have to be prepared...
route auxiliary power to shields...
Major, I'd like you to coordinate
evacuation of the pylons. Odo can
help you. Dismissed.
47 INT. TURBOLIFT
as Kira, troubled by this turn of events, ENTERS...
KIRA
Lower pylon one.
It starts to move...
KIRA
Kira to Odo.
Odo's com voice is yelling over a thundering sound...
ODO'S COM VOICE
What is it, Major?
KIRA
(reacts curiously to
the noise)
I need you to do a security sweep
through the pylons... we're going to
evacuate them...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 2/25/93 - ACT FOUR 38.
48 INT. PROMENADE
Close on two Gunji jackdaws moving down the Promenade...
finding Odo along with them -- like a school crossing guard --
ODO
I'll get on it as soon as possible...
I've got my hands full right now...
clear the way... get out of the
corridors... let them through...
49 INT. TURBOLIFT (OPTICAL)
Kira reacts... as the lift stops and the door opens and as
she's about to walk out to the airlock... flames are bursting
through from behind the door...
KIRA
(hits combadge)
Kira to Ops... Lower Pylon One is
gone... I need emergency...
She's interrupted by the shocking emergence of a figure
entirely on fire who is coming right at her, screaming in
pain, arms out... She reacts, jumps back, trying to get out
of the way... but just as it seems the fiery figure is about
to embrace her, it disappears.
SISKO'S COM VOICE
Sisko to Kira. Report. Kira, can
you read me...
50 REVERSE ANGLE
There is no fire... no figure... Kira reacts... stands and
walks out to the pylon airlock... perfectly normal...
KIRA
Disregard, Commander. False alarm.
Kira out.
She takes out a tricorder and takes a reading, almost as a
confirmation that it is over... puts it down, breathes
deeply... and moves to a companel...
KIRA
All personnel in Lower Pylon One,
report to the outer ring airlock,
prepare for evacuation...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 2/25/93 - ACT FOUR 38A.
51 INT. PROMENADE
As before, Odo trying to direct pedestrians out of the way
of the rumbling jackdaws...
ODO
Please, stay inside... this isn't a
show... you, get out of the way...
Quark rushes up and stops him...
QUARK
Odo, Odo, thank goodness... I'd like
to report two missing persons... a
blonde and a brunette...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 2/25/93 - ACT FOUR 39.
51 CONTINUED:
ODO
Can't you see I'm busy...
(to others)
Don't scare them...
QUARK
One minute they were whispering sweet
nothings in my ear, the next minute
the sweet nothings were gone...
ODO
(to Quark)
Would you get off the street before
you...
52 ANGLE
as he turns back to see the jackdaws are gone... sighs a
breath of relief... meanwhile Quark sees something o.c.,
smiles with delight...
QUARK
I've been looking everywhere for
you...
53 NEW ANGLE
to see the three women approaching Quark from the other
direction...
QUARK
Don't ever do that to me again...
They surround him... he's happy again... Odo's about to
leave... but as the women nuzzle and pet Quark...
QUARK
So, Odo what have you conjured up
during all this?
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 2/25/93 - ACT FOUR 40.
53 CONTINUED:
ODO
Me?
QUARK
I should have guessed - nothing at
all.
ODO
I've spent all my time chasing
incarnations of the prophets, long
dead lovers, Gunji jackdaws,
blizzards, trollops...
QUARK
As I've always said -- a man without
any imagination... come along, my
dears... and I'll show you what a
fertile imagination can do...
He leaves... Odo grunts once more... goes into --
54 INT. SECURITY OFFICE
Moves to console...
ODO
(to himself)
Imagination, hmph...
(to com)
Computer, run a level one personnel
sweep of all pylons...
COMPUTER VOICE
Requested function will take
approximately three minutes.
As he begins to check the rotating shots on the VPB
monitors... he reacts as he hears --
QUARK (O.S.)
Let me out of here!
Odo reacts, looks over to --
55 MONITOR (OPTICAL)
to see an angry Quark in one of Odo's holding cells. Quark
touches and re-establishes the forcefield.
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 3/024/93 - ACT FOUR 41.
55 CONTINUED:
QUARK (MONITOR)
Get the Nagus on subspace... I want
to talk to him and I mean now! I'm
not spending another minute in this
cell...
ODO
(shocked, to com)
How did you get in there?
QUARK
How did I get in here?
(angry)
You put me in here!
56 CLOSE ON ODO
as he raises an eyebrow... then that half smile comes to his
lips, as he realizes --
ODO
I guess I did, didn't I?
57 RESUME MONITOR (OPTICAL)
The jail cell is empty again.
ODO
No imagination, indeed.
57A INT. SISKO'S QUARTERS
Jake is working at his desk on his computer homework, but
his attention wanders and he'd rather be somewhere else...
his eye moves to the baseball glove and bat not far away...
suddenly, he reacts as the sounds of a stadium crowd fill
the room...
VOICES (O.S.)
Hey, get your cold beer... get your
cold beer right here... peanuts...
souvenirs... scorecards... can't
tell the players without a
scorecard...
And Jake has been clued in to what's going on so it's no
nightmare... this almost amusing to him, more weird than
scary... then he turns to see --
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 3/05/93 - ACT FOUR 41A.
57B ANGLE - TO REVEAL BUCK
behind him... the sounds continue... Jake stands...
BUCK
So what are you doing here?
JAKE
I can't go. I've got homework to
do.
BUCK
(curious)
But you'd rather be at the ballpark.
JAKE
You don't understand -- if I go to
the holosuite without finishing my
homework, my Dad'll kill me.
BUCK
Kill you?
JAKE
Yeah.
BUCK
You really believe he would... kill
you?
JAKE
I know he would...
BUCK
(curious)
If that's true, why are you still
thinking about going...
JAKE
I'm trying not to.
BUCK
But you are wondering if you can get
away with it, aren't you...
57C ANGLE - SISKO (OPTICAL)
appears... Buck watches...
SISKO
Well?
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 3/05/93 - ACT FOUR 41B.
57C CONTINUED:
JAKE
Uh, I didn't understand the
directions... uh... the computer
accidentally erased the instruction
page...
SISKO
You really expect me to believe
that?
JAKE
(sighs)
No, I guess not.
The Sisko illusion disappears. Jake turns back to Buck...
JAKE
I really gotta finish my homework.
And as he sits... Buck and the sounds disappear and Jake
begins to type on the computer again...
58 INT. OPS
Dax and O'Brien are working at their respective stations...
Bashir is looking over Dax's shoulder...
DAX
(with concern)
Benjamin, I need to see you...
A beat later, Sisko exits his office...
SISKO
What do you have, Dax?
DAX
In the last hour alone, the rupture
has expanded twenty-seven percent...
The rate of expansion is increasing...
SISKO
Can we gain any time by moving the
station?
DAX
(shakes her head)
If the rift collapses, the implosion
would overtake us almost immediately.
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 2/25/93 - ACT FOUR 42.
58 CONTINUED:
SISKO
How soon before you're ready, Chief?
O'BRIEN
I'm installing pulse wave devices
into the torpedoes now, Commander...
six or seven minutes...
DAX
The rift's gotten large enough to
pick up on visual scanners...
SISKO
On screen...
59 ANGLE (OPTICAL)
to see a small twisting optical in space...
SISKO
Magnify.
The vision increases in magnitude... and it is a serious-
looking phenomenon, sucking in space matter all around it.
60 REVERSE ON SISKO
watching with concern and pull back to see Buck is beside
him... also watching the viewscreen with concern... and then
move to find the dwarf watching with curiosity by O'Brien at
his station and Dax #2 watching with curiosity by Bashir...
as we
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT FOUR
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - ACT FIVE 43.
ACT FIVE
FADE IN:
61 INT. OPS (OPTICAL)
Re-establishing the anomaly on the Viewscreen. As before
with all the fantasy figures... Kira ENTERS from a
Turbolift...
KIRA
All pylons are secured. Everyone's
been moved to the habitat ring.
She moves to her station.
62 ANGLE ON DAX #2 & BASHIR
still watching the viewscreen.
DAX #2
(realizing, with
concern)
You're worried...
BASHIR
(reluctantly paying
her attention)
You bet I am... if this doesn't work,
nothing real or imagined is going to
survive...
She looks up scared at the anomaly on the screen, shivers
with fear... whispers, quite sincere --
DAX #2
Hold me, Julian.
And he looks at her and sees how scared she is... awkwardly
puts an arm around her shoulder to comfort her...
63 NEW ANGLE
O'Brien pressing panels, looking up...
O'BRIEN
Torpedoes ready, Commander...
SISKO
Status of shields?
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 3/05/93 - ACT FIVE 44.
63 CONTINUED:
DAX
All available power has been
transferred... reading shield strength
at one hundred fifty-eight percent
above normal...
SISKO
(a beat, nods)
Let's hope it's enough. Red alert.
The lights change.
SISKO
Fire.
As O'Brien launches the photons...
64 EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL)
to see the launch...
65 INT. OPS
O'BRIEN
All systems functioning properly...
torpedo guidance is on nominal
track...
DAX
Thirty seconds to coordinates...
O'BRIEN
Impulse sustainer throttling down...
arming pulse wave initiator...
DAX
Torpedo hull temperature dropping...
O'BRIEN
Activating pulse waves... compression
level at fourteen hundred and
rising...
DAX
Twenty seconds...
O'BRIEN
Compression at twenty-nine hundred,
three thousand,...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 3/04/93 - ACT FIVE 44A.
65 CONTINUED:
DAX
... terminal targeting spread
confirmed...
O'BRIEN
... thirty-five hundred... holding
compression...
DAX
Ten seconds...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 3/04/93 - ACT FIVE 45.
65 CONTINUED: (2)
SISKO
Ready to detonate...
O'BRIEN
Ready, sir.
DAX
Five seconds...
SISKO
Now.
O'Brien presses the panel...
66 EXT. SPACE - RUPTURE (OPTICAL)
The photons explode... the rift swallows it up like a
whirlpool sucking in white light...
67 INT. OPS (OPTICAL)
O'BRIEN
(hopeful)
Wave intensity from the rift is
dropping... the thoron field boundary
is shrinking... particle energy is
rising...
(sees something wrong)
Wait a minute, what's this...
He hits panels...
DAX
Wave emissions are fluctuating...
we're not getting a controlled
collapse...
SISKO
(urgent)
Chief?
O'BRIEN
(hands flying across
the console)
Dammit... we're picking up an
exothermic reaction pattern... it
may be neutralizing the pulse waves...
stand by...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 3/04/93 - ACT FIVE 45A.
67 CONTINUED:
KIRA
Our perimeter sensors are picking up
subspace oscillations... what the
hell does that mean...
The station vibrates lightly...
DAX
Proton counts have tripled...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 2/25/93 - ACT FIVE 46.
67 CONTINUED: (2)
O'BRIEN
Residual pulse wave activity from
our torpedoes is down to fourteen
percent...
A beat, this is disaster... glances at Sisko...
O'BRIEN
(fatalist tones)
The flux density readings inside the
rupture are off the scale...
There is a flash through the windows... and simultaneously
the lights go out and the station takes a massive hit that
throws everybody to the floor... Dax #2 hits her head on a
console on the way (note, we don't really need to see)...
68 INT. QUARK'S
Lights out. The shake continues as tables and chairs are
thrown over... chips and dice and people are on the floor...
Quark and the girls look up from the floor to see if the
roof is holding...
69 INT. SECURITY OFFICE (VPB)
The shaking has subsided. Consoles are sparking... Odo is
on the floor... jumps to his feet, hits his combadge... it's
not working...
ODO
Odo to Ops... Ops?
70 INT. OPS
People getting to their feet... emergency lighting comes on.
KIRA
(at her station)
Com circuits are down. I'm trying
to reroute pathways. Life support
is normal.
SISKO
Shields?
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 2/25/93 - ACT FIVE 47.
70 CONTINUED:
O'BRIEN
A generator is down. Section Four
is exposed.
ODO'S COM VOICE
Odo to Ops...
KIRA
(re: comline)
There we go...
SISKO
(nods, nice work)
Constable... check for casualties,
have your deputies move everybody
out of section Four... we have shield
damage...
ODO'S COM VOICE
Acknowledged.
SISKO
What are we getting from the rift?
Dax is back in her chair... nearby, Dax #2 is still on the
ground... Bashir tending her...
DAX
(can't get a reading)
Sensors aren't operating.
O'BRIEN
(going to work on
them)
Stand by.
He moves to the pit.
71 ANGLE ON BASHIR AND DAX #
She's bleeding from the temple... he's trying to control the
bleeding...
DAX #2
I can't feel my hands, Julian...
BASHIR
Lie still...
He turns to Bokai...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - ACT FIVE 47A.
71 CONTINUED:
BASHIR
There's an emergency medical kit in
that cabinet there... get it!
Bokai hesitates for only an instant, goes and gets the kit...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/25/93 - ACT FIVE 48.
71 CONTINUED: (2)
DAX #2
I'm sorry...
BASHIR
Ssshh...
DAX #2
I never meant to bother you...
BASHIR
You didn't bother me...
Bokai arrives with the kit... Bashir goes to work... wipes
the blood off her face...
DAX #2
I can't keep my eyes open...
BASHIR
Don't close them... I want you
awake... you have a nasty
concussion...
DAX #2
Can't help it...
Her eyes close...
BASHIR
(to Dax #2)
Dax!
The real Dax turns to the voice... sees what's happened...
exchanges a quick glance with Bashir... who turns back to
work more feverishly...
O'BRIEN
Sensors are back on line.
72 NEW ANGLE
KIRA
The rupture is now a kilometer wide...
over three hundred and forty percent
larger than before...
SISKO
Is it showing any signs of collapsing?
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 2/25/93 - ACT FIVE 49.
DAX
Wave emissions from the rift are
still fluctuating... I can't make
sense of these readings... Proton
counts are lower than before...
(beat, bad news)
... Now they're beginning to rise
again.
O'BRIEN
The pulse waves from our torpedoes
have been completely neutralized...
it's just a matter of time before
the rift starts to expand again...
SISKO
How much time...
O'BRIEN
Minutes.
SISKO
Suggestions.
Silence.
73 ANGLE ON O'BRIEN AND RUMPELSTILTSKIN (OPTICAL)
O'Brien struggles for an answer...
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
Run out of ideas, friend?
O'Brien grits his teeth, ignores the needle...
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
(to Sisko)
I have a suggestion.
(off Sisko's look)
Maybe I can be of service.
O'BRIEN
You?
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
You created me with powers beyond
mortal men... I would be happy to
use them to assist you... for a price.
He holds out a hand and suddenly Keiko is there with Molly
in her arms...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - ACT FIVE 50.
73 CONTINUED:
KEIKO
Miles... ?
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
I've always wanted a daughter.
The station begins to vibrate again.
KIRA
Perimeter sensors are reading subspace
oscillations again...
O'Brien feels the pressure of the moment... grabs the dwarf
who never loses his cool --
O'BRIEN
You're telling me you can seal that
rupture out there?
And Sisko reacts... and his mind begins to work...
remembering, putting the pieces of this puzzle together...
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
I can turn straw into gold, my
friend... this seems no more
difficult.
O'BRIEN
Then, do it, dammit!
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
Will you meet my price?
O'Brien looks around, a short, incredulous, gallows laugh...
O'BRIEN
This is crazy. You're out of a
fairytale, a storybook.
Again, include Sisko who's beginning to reach a possible
conclusion in his mind...
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
Will you give her up... to save so
many others...
And now Sisko steps forward...
SISKO
No... he doesn't have to...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - ACT FIVE 51.
73 CONTINUED: (2)
Reactions, they look at Sisko...
SISKO
Dax... when did our sensors first
pick up traces of the rupture...
DAX
(not certain where
he's going)
You were there, Benjamin... when we
were first trying to figure this
whole thing out...
SISKO
And if I remember correctly you said
your previous scans hadn't picked up
any anomalies at all...
DAX
(acknowledges)
I thought that whatever was out there
might have been too small for the
scanners to identify...
SISKO
(finishing her thought)
So you imagined that we might be
dealing with a subspace rupture which
is exactly what it turned out to
be...
DAX
(catching on)
That is what I... imagined...
SISKO
And once you learned about the rift
that destroyed the Hanoli system, we
all imagined that this might be
another one just like it...
(beat)
Mister O'Brien, drop the shields.
O'BRIEN
Sir?
SISKO
There is no rupture. There is no
threat to this station. Or this
system. End red alert and drop the
shields!
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - ACT FIVE 73.
73 CONTINUED: (3)
O'BRIEN
(uncertain)
Aye, sir.
Red alert lights change. The station's vibrations increase
markedly...
SISKO
And believe it, Mister O'Brien...
it's important that you believe it.
O'BRIEN
Aye, sir.
SISKO
Are your sensors picking up any
magnetic shock waves, Major?
KIRA
(checking)
Yessir, perimeter readings still
show...
SISKO
(interrupting,
insisting)
No shock waves at all.
KIRA
(reacts, looks up,
understands)
None at all.
Suddenly, the vibrations stop.
SISKO
Lieutenant, proton counts?
DAX
(without checking)
Normal.
74 EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL)
With a much larger rift than the last time we saw it visible
off the starboard bow. It dissipates and disappears.
75 INT. OPS
As before.
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - ACT FIVE 53.
75 CONTINUED:
KIRA
(checking)
It's gone.
The normal lights return... as they react...
76 ANGLE ON DAX #2 AND BASHIR (OPTICAL)
Her eyes open narrowly... she smiles weakly at Bashir...
BASHIR
You're going to be fine.
DAX #2
(weakly)
Of course, I am. I have the best
doctor in the galaxy.
And he's saved her life just as he would imagine it... she
reaches up with a hand and touches his chin... and
disappears...
77 NEW ANGLE (OPTICAL)
as they react to the disappearance of first the dwarf and
then Buck. O'Brien goes to his wife and child to comfort
them.
KIRA
None of this makes any sense... I
mean, why did they appear in the
first place...
DAX
It might still be related to the
elevated thoron emissions in the
plasma field... the readings haven't
returned to normal...
SISKO
Continue your analysis, Dax. But no
speculations this time. Just facts.
(beat)
Major, keep us on yellow alert for
twenty-six hours till we see if
everything's back to normal. Chief,
take your family home. That's an
order.
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - REV. 2/25/93 - ACT FIVE 54.
77 CONTINUED:
O'BRIEN
Yes sir.
Sisko EXITS to his office. The O'Briens move to the
Turbolift.
78 INT. COMMANDER'S OFFICE
Exhausted, Sisko sits and considers the day's events... after
a beat...
BUCK (O.S.)
This... imagination of yours... it's
a tough concept for us to get a handle
on, Ben.
79 ANGLE (OPTICAL)
to see Buck with his mitt, popping the ball...
SISKO
(realizing)
You're not simply a figment of my
imagination, are you...
Buck studies him a beat...
BUCK
We're on an extended mission exploring
the galaxy... Awhile back, we followed
one of your ships through that hole
in space out there... we've been
watching you, trying to figure out
the rules of your game...
SISKO
Why didn't you just talk to us...
like this?
BUCK
We've learned you never can tell how
someone's going to treat the visiting
team...
SISKO
(grins lightly)
I understand...
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - ACT FIVE 55.
79 CONTINUED:
BUCK
Well, that's what this has been all
about. Learning to understand.
SISKO
Was it really necessary to put the
whole station in jeopardy?
BUCK
But we didn't, Ben. You did. It
was your imaginations that created
everything... we were just watching
to see where it took you. This...
imagination of yours... we've never
seen anything like it. It's very
real to all of you... and yet it's
not... at first, it seemed to us to
be a curse, an irritation... that
Odo fellow even called it a waste of
time.
SISKO
I'd disagree with him.
BUCK
I know you would. I've learned that
about you. That you could have such
an... affection... for someone you've
never met...
(beat)
I wonder if you appreciate how unique
this imagination of yours really is.
SISKO
(grins)
Not always.
A beat. Buck smiles.
BUCK
We've got to go.
SISKO
But you haven't told us anything
about your species.
DEEP SPACE: "If Wishes Were... " - 2/24/93 - ACT FIVE 56.
79 CONTINUED: (2)
BUCK
I'd like to.
He tosses Sisko the ball.
BUCK
Maybe next year.
And he disappears... leaving Sisko alone in his office.
Sisko flips the ball in the air, smiles knowingly as we...
80 EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL)
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT FIVE
THE END