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Ew, there's Piscopo all over my poker
That is a mug if I've ever seen one
Geordi and Data cheat
Data doesn't cheat. He is just sending coded messages to the other players across time.
If he ends up taking all their money at the end of it, that's more their fault than his.
Do they ever show Data playing poker with the emotion chip? I don't recall seeing a poker game in the movies...
I only ask because in TNG they show Data not being able to tell all the time when someone is bluffing. So I'm wondering if that got better when he has emotions...
The only instances that might come close I found...
TNG
All Good Things..." — Season 7, Episodes 25–26 (1994) Star Trek: Picard came to an end in a manner very familiar to fans of TNG. After closing down Guinan's bar in 24th century Los Angeles, the former crew of the USS Enterprise-D settled into a game of poker. In the TNG finale specifically, Picard finally joins the poker game for the first time, with Data dealing
Star Trek: Picard
"Remembrance" — Season 1, Episode 1 (2020) Jean-Luc Picard sits down with Data for a friendly game of poker and a spot of tea, but the showdown yields unbelievable results for the retired Admiral. This is a dream/simulation sequence set at the very start of the series. Paramount+
"The Last Generation" — Season 3 Finale (2023) The credits rolled with the lifelong friends laughing and happily talking with each other as Jean-Luc Picard dealt a fresh hand of cards at a final poker game reuniting the TNG crew — including Data (now in a new android body).
I certainly don't remember those episodes in detail, but I suspect they didn't spend a ton of time on it
OK, so is this spirit CGI Data then?
In that case, forget it
Don't forget the empath.
Geordi doesn’t cheat. He only looks after the hand is done.
But that makes me wonder why he can’t read Riker like a book since he’ll see every time he bluffs and could note whatever his tells might be.
Knowing Geordi can tune his visor sensitivities and spectrum, I would bet he "lowers the sensitivity" in order to play fairly. And I trust Geordi enough to not cheat unless he suspects someone else is, and then only to confirm cheating.
And Riker could also be just that good at his poker face when he wants to be.
Here is a trick to acting. Believe the scene. When you are in it, it is real. The more you believe that you are there in reality, the better the acting comes across. I imagine lying or bluffing in poker works the same. If I have a pair but convince myself to believe, really truly believe I've got a full house and bet and act accordingly, I can bluff better. Self deception is an art.
That would still be cheating if the other player doesn't have to and also doesn't want to show their cards.
You'd get kicked out of any serious poker game if you reached over and looked at a hand that was intentionally not shown.
Sorry. My comment about him not cheating was in jest. Hence why i mentioned him cheating immediately after.
I don’t believe that for a second
Only if it’s this version from All Good Things… when Picard finally joins ❤️
He unlocks later after you get all the other achievements.
I always wondered if Picard would be great or terrible at poker.
Oh, c’mon…
Better than Riker? No. But I’m sure he could hold his own.
Part of me thinks he'd be amazing because of his skills as a captain that transfer (like knowing when to bluff), but also, it would be hilarious for him to make a big deal about finally joining them and then losing terribly because they play all the time and he never does.
That’s just it— he’d play it cool by losing a few hands at first then coming in cool to win big. See, Riker is big and showy, but Picard is a man of strategy. Riker wouldn’t see him coming.
But, on the next hand, Data would have him. ;)
Pre emotion chip? Nah. Picard would have too good of a poker face for Data to beat before he better understands emotions and has a "guy feeling" (despite lack of a gut)
You can do that in VR chat if you want. Poker worlds exist and Star Trek avatars do too. Just grab a few friends who like acting.
I mean, you can, but it's gonna be a brutal game:
- Android smarter and faster thinking than anything alive, that can also bluff perfectly
- Psychic that can tell if you're lying or masking any emotion
- Genius engineer that can read the front-side of your cards from the back
- 7ft tall alien that gets in regular fights with doors, people, because he can
- Genius doctor that routinely works miracles
- Everybody's boss, who is really good at bluffing on top of that.
I just want to get my arms ripped off for winning at space chess. It means I won at chess and can get new space arms. I want ones with prehensile, I dunno, elbow caps.
Best I can do is a jet-black cyborg suit that you have to wear 100% of the time, and you have to lease from the Empire.
I want ones with prehensile, I dunno, elbow caps.
Good use of criminally under-used body real-estate. I approve.
Geordi: leans over focusing visor "player, why are you naked?"
Need visor proof cards, and if data time travels, some sort of singularity that eats him.
Got to love the old TV aspect ratio.
Strip poker....
I could see all the main cast (and quite a few secondary cast) returning to voice lines in a game.
Some seem to enjoy voice acting work, and their voices haven't changed TOO much.
Hell, I'd settle for a round of Go Fish with the "old" actors from Picard, then they don't need to worry about trying to sound younger.
Tell them it’s x-com dlc, and they’re still under contract.
No no no, it’d be all pixely and text like 1992.
It's funny to me that they're always playing stud like they've never even heard of no limit hold em.
No limit hold-em is fine, but after Rounders, literally every movie/tv show had it as the only game ever played. If TNG was a decade later they definitely would have used it.
Glad they didn't. Even Casino Royale used it inappropriately.
and for me, because I never really bet on cards, I prefer draw poker - to me there's more room for banter in that vs either stud or hold-em.
I will probably never own a VR headset, and don’t even know how to play poker. Regardless, I’m still annoyed that this doesn’t exist.
Poker night at the inventory 3: strange new worlds.