Imaginations run wild when Rumpelstiltskin, legendary baseball player Buck Bokai, and a duplicate Dax suddenly appear on the station. An investigation reveals that the crew's fantasies are somehow coming to life and wreaking havoc. Dax surmises the anomaly is being caused by a disruption in the plasma field — it seems a similar subspace rupture occurred in the Hanoli system and destroyed it. As the danger mounts, the crew devises a plan to seal the rupture with a modified photon torpedo, but the attempt fails. Sisko must put his mind over his imagination in order to avert a major disaster.

Rosalind Chao (Keiko O'Brien)
Hana Hatae (Molly O'Brien)
Keone Young (Buck Bakai)
Michael John Anderson (Rumpelstiltskin)