Saturday, December 26, 2015

DS9: If Wishes Were Horses

         How about if wishes were good episodes? Nope! I am extra cranky today since I hurt my back on Christmas and have spent most of my day in bed other than sitting up for 40ish minutes to watch this stinker. I suspect one of the writers read sphere and decided to make an episode based on that, but it makes way less sense than that. Were there really only three aliens? Who has such an emu obsession that they kept appearing on the promenade? 
         The episode begins with Miles telling Molly a bed time story about rumplestilkskin and then he becomes real. Also Jakes fantasy baseball player and a romantic version of Dax for Julian. And there is a space rift that shows up. But they eventually settle on the "just don't believe in them" strategy and they all go away but the baseball player comes to Sisko and explains they were just studying us but they apparently totally would have destroyed the station. Also Sisko is willing to try a risky strategy that could easily destroy Bajor and it fails but somehow Bajor is safe and Kira is only annoyed instead of going full freak out mode like she probably should have.

         Review: I can't sit at my computer long so the summary above is super brief, but you probably got that I really didn't like this one. It isn't insulting although it was orignally going to be a leprechaun but Colm Meany told them to shove the script up their ass sideways.

3 out of 10

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