Betting pool Betting pools ( or ship ' s pools ) were a form of gambling which involved betting on the outcome of both gaming and non - gaming events . The engineering crew of had a pool in which they tried to guess how far the ship would travel each day . Tucker once asked temporal agent for a tip on the following day ' s distance , but Daniels said they didn ' t monitor events that closely . ( ) During his brief visit to the mirror universe in 2267 , Dr . Leonard McCoy was appalled by what he found , calling his sickbay a " Chamber of Horrors " , further describing that ' s assistants " " were betting on the tolerance of an injured man , " " specifically , " " how long it would take him to pass out from the pain . " " ( ) In 2364 , Worf noted to Natasha Yar that she was heavily favored in the ship ' s pool during her martial arts competitions against Science Officer Swenson and Lieutenant Minnerly . Surprised that Worf bet on her he stated that it was " a sure thing . " ( ) When William T . Riker of the played Strategema against Sirna Kolrami , Worf wagered heavily in the ship ' s pool that Riker would take Kolrami past the sixth plateau . ( ) Quark was often heading up betting pools for events on and around Deep Space 9 . In 2369 a Bolian woman cheated in such a game as she placed her wager not onto the green line after the play was completed . Quark threw her out of his bar . ( ) The same year Quark wagered five bars of gold latinum at Sisko during the boxing fight between Sisko and Q . Vash accepted this bidding . ( ) Quark did again a betting pool and collected latinum from several individuals including Morn when Jadzia Dax was accused of murder and treason and the hearing was placed at Quark ' s Bar . ( ) In 2370 , Quark created a betting pool on a game of racquetball between Julian Bashir and Miles O ' Brien . The competition was slated as " the grudge match of the galaxy " featuring " the Mechanic versus the Doctor . " Quark , who served as their exclusive promoter s , offered to donate half of the house ' s winnings to the Bajoran Fund for Orphans . Prior to the competition , it was revealed that all the bets were on Bashir . Quark attempted to persuade Bashir to throw the game into O ' Brien ' s favor , stating that if Bashir won , then there would be no profits to donate . ( ) Quark also often ran a popular pool , which he called the " Manhunt Pool " , whenever any unusual crimes were committed on the station . This allowed people to bet on how long it would take Odo to apprehend the guilty party . ( ) While in a coma , Bashir was trapped inside his mind , with the station representing his body and various people representing parts of his psyche . Naturally , Quark represented his greed and took bets on everything from which organ would fail to how long the doctor had to live . ( ) In 2372 , Tom Paris organized the Paris Radiogenic Sweepstakes in which replicator rations were bet on the radiogenic particle count . Chakotay considered this inappropriate behavior for an officer and put an end to it . ( ) In 2375 , a betting pool was established on when the missing Ezri Dax and Worf would return to the station . Morn won the pool by guessing the exact day of their return and by missing their arrival time by only two hours . ( ) Following the end of the Dominion War and the death of Winn Adami , Quark ' s weekly betting pool was one who the next Bajoran kai would be . Quark considered it a wide open field , but noted that the smart money was on Vedek Ungtae . Upon learning this , Kira Nerys imposed an immediate station regulation that made betting pools of any kind illegal . She reinforced the regulation by stating that if she caught " anyone " making a bet on the station , " Quark " would spend fifteen days in a holding cell . ( ) When solely navigating the through a nebula while the rest of the " Voyager " crew was in stasis , Seven of Nine hallucinated that Tom Paris said he was taking bets on how long she would last . ( ) On " Voyager " , after B ' Elanna Torres experienced false labor numerous times , Harry Kim started a pool to see who could guess the actual date and time of birth . Kathryn Janeway told Chakotay to tell Kim to put her down for the following Friday at 2300 hours . When Torres actually did go into labor , her husband , Tom Paris , speculated that he might win the pool , as he had picked that day at 1500 hours . ( )