bahaha, those damn cardassians. Sneaky fellows.

@@egocrusher8 I think the Pah Wraiths bet on the wrong person to be their representative against Star Trek Team.

Holy shit... I did not see this until you pointed him out.

I imagine Mr. Alaimo must have enjoyed playing a different role, for one scene anyway.

@@mattalley4330 He also plays a cop with Jeffrey Combs in the Sisko lives in the past and is a writer episode

Yes. Makes one shudder in disgust when comparing TNG to STD or STP

And a great actor to portray him!

Iam sure after his encounter with Data he got well, struck it rich and became famous.

Funny, but his lines have stuck with me more than almost any others from the series.

@@mattplata7469 sadly he met up with an ophidian

Data would be invincible at poker. Instant recall of all hands, videographic replay of every person's habits playing them, the ability to see minor changes in physiology, perfect knowledge of his hands' odds, and utterly unreadable.

@@stupidnamefilter Oh, it gets worse than that. He can choose to show minor mannerisms or ticks, make emotional changes, etc. to lure opponents into traps. Ultimately what he is unlikely to do is cheat ... unless he really has to.

@@Michael-cf9cj And in this case, he would have to. He needs the funds. Also, his opponents made the mistake of letting Data deal the cards, as he is also capable of stacking the deck in his favor.

Imagine if his brother Lore was sent back into the past. Temporal agents would be locking down every variant, every timeline split for decades. Trying to hunt down an android with mental and physical abilities beyond most humonoids.

Even the Hat

My life is pretty similar but without the friends.

Data has a remarkable advantage. He is Humble. All those soft bodied mortals around him feel confident and at ease. A Metal Man with a storage capacity of 800 quadrillion bits, who can bend parsteel like your bathroom toothpaste, and oh yeah he can speak French.

I don't watch star trek, but would a show based around data be a good idea?

Yea he needed his own spin-off series.

@@Sammy_82 Star trek TNG in a way IS written based around Data :D

Data lied! But I guess it's ok because he's protecting the Prime Directive? Also, I wonder if the writer's meant that as a reference to The Coneheads.

@@tablescissors There was a brief TNG/Coneheads crossover on the net in the 90's. Basically, the Enterprise encounters the Coneheads' ship, hails, puts them on screen. Beldar opens with, "We come from France." and Picard answers with, "The hell you do! Mr Worf, arm phasers and torpedoes."

@@HariSeldon913 you just made my day, thank you 😂😂😂

Or a meme even.

@@HariSeldon913 That's grand, love that.

USD 3 was worth a lot more in the 19th century

@@SoranPryde I think it would be around $80 in today’s money. I have no idea how much Data’s combadge would have been worth though.

@@emlowz I don't know if its ever made clear what the combadges are made of. I doubt they are made of gold or silver.

@@Elly3981he says it in this scene, its an alloy partially composed of gold. we also use gold in all our computers today but that’s irrelevant to the scene.

@@Elly3981 the first time we see the Ferengi in season 1, they comment about the combadges being made with gold too. So yeah... gold.

it IS the only way to speak french.

@@tuseroni6085 Hahahaha!

@@tuseroni6085 you can only be sassy in french, the same way you always sound angry or disgruntled in german.

His French accent isn't so good

@@Shiirow make that double for Russian

Also noteworthy: Data's French was more grammatically correct.

So much awesome right here....

@@Swindle1984 Gambler was Cajun French. Like Quebecois, there is drift in the grammar and vocabulary

I have always wondered what they said since I was a little kid. Thank you sir!!!

@@dodgeplow Yes. But Brent Spiner doesn't speak French, so the fact he did it so well is funny.

I've never seen Picard speak French even though he's a native Frenchman born in France, I believe. Even if he spoke only English, Picard still should have at least had a French accent. But then again, Patrick Stewart is British and probably doesn't know any French.

OUI

@@Elly3981he says “merde” a couple of times in the early seasons, and has a very brief chat with Minuet on the holodeck, but that’s about it

We wouldn't know either way, as the universal translator makes us hear everything in English

@@Elly3981Robert doesn’t have a French accent, neither did Rene. Frankly we are talking about late enough in history that I could see many areas not speaking their ancestral language, or not frequently enough to show up in typical accents.

He has one of the great voices of TV. So deep and rich, he could read the phone book and it would sound dramatic!

he's also quite the chameleon, playing several different characters in the ST universe

I thought he said that because someone assumed he was a Frenchman and Data didn't fully grasp the meaning of his label.

Yeah its a shame alot of actors didn't take star trek seriously and where even embarrassed be on it especially the orginal series.

Don't forget the actor who played Fajo the collector. He totally nailed his part too.

@@Elly3981 He sure did. And he was an emergency fill in who came in part way through the week because the original actor, who had completed part of the shooting, committed suicide. They contacted Saul Rubinek who learned the lines real quick and had to reshoot the whole thing in like 4 days.

That's a YES!! on the occasional examples of spotty acting -- especially by otherwise talented people who really should know better. One of the reasons I liked this episode so much may have been because everyone gave us their best. Who would you say did the worst job of "phoning in" a performance on ST:NG (any episode)?

@@krisaaron5771 the surgeons in s2 that tried to fix Picard's heart before Pulaski arrived to save the day. Also the guest actors in Angel One. All terrible acting.

Riker would be proud.

Imagine letting Data loose on 1970's Vegas. The mob couldn't fuck with him and he would break the bank at the casinos.

@@kentvesser9484Didn't he kind of do that in that 1st season episode where they got trapped in the novel recreation?

I believe that would be Jack Murdock.

@@BeautilufMusic - thank you so much!

was thinking the same thing, for a second I thought he was the real deal and not an actor xD

He even caught drug-resistant tuberculosis to sell the cough. :)

@@kentvesser9484 now that's some dedication. some real christian bale style method acting

Data knows French yes, but he is also fluent in Stupid.

A crystalline composite of silica, beryllium, carbon 70 and...

"and established a new identity as a Cajun gentleman-cardplayer" ... Only to get beaten again.

One of the great voices, imagine a scene that somehow featured him, James Earl Jones, and Christopher Lee. They could read random extracts from the Doncaster phone book and it would sound good!

so thats where the Pah Wraiths sent him!!

He also looked upset when the miner said it was too late for a doctor.

Well that's the thing. Data _wasn't_ emotionless. Over the course of the series you watch him become less awkward in his dealings with people and more human in his responses and facial expressions. Even without the use of an emotion chip, Data seemed to be slowly writing the programming for one all on his own. Through trial and observation Data knew what was appropriate in certain contexts.

TNG nearly did a smash zoom thingy Data was so excited by his standards.

Data learned humanity well, even the addictions.

Finally, thank you

thank you sir

Thank you very much. Gratefully appreciated

See, this is why I can't accept that Data was devoid of emotion. If that wasn't some type of elation then I have failed as a human being at reading people

@@absolutcabbagery3661 Yeah, Data very much has emotion. He just thinks that, because it isn't messy and unpredictable like humans' (and Lore's artificial emotion), it must not be the real thing. He expresses sentimentality towards Tasha, distrust towards the Romulan spy posing as a Vulcan ambassador, wrath towards Fajo, happiness in this case, etc.

As I recall, in TNG data plays poker because it helped him understand the concepts of lying and deception. He wasn't naturally gifted at it. So this is just him relying on his experience playing with the sharks on board the Enterprise. He was taking a real gamble here (you should pardon the expression).

That's okay, he knew he was gunna scam them outta significantly more than that guy did him.

The "carbon-70" he refers to might be some sort of fullerene - "buckyballs" are also referred to as C-60.

@@drtidrow excellent point I forgot about Buckminster Fuller, long time ago👍 How much is an ounce of C60?

At least he won the game, if not those Fellas or whoever won the game would have his communicator badge although they would not know how to use it! Unless it started making noise when they heard a voice out of it!

You quoted the price of an ounce of gold. There was very likely way less than an ounce in the device. So $3 may not have been that low of an offer.

When you're doing a space show with aliens, it's easy to bring actors back. LOL! They probably watched the dailies and said" you know, I like him. we'll bring him back as an alien one of these days "

@@catherinesanchez1185 That is exactly what happened. Boardrooms watch star trek too you know.

I love how they personally attacked him in the new DS9 documentary and then applauded Garak and Bashir for being gay lovers. Star Trek is so progressive!

I love how later another character explains he's playing good cop/bad cop with the native american guy, at least it's implied, it would part of their card shark strat for one of them to be the scary one and probably which one would be a read of who their opponent fears more, the french or the natives, which is a pretty Early California kind of campfire question. God, such good writing.

He was speaking English, and the porter turns out to be Jack London, a fairly competent wordsmith in his own right...

he wouldnt. banknotes only said "legal tender" since the end of gold standard, before that they said "lawful money" and before that, of course, that the presenter of the note will get gold in exchange

@@christopherdean1326 I had forggoten the bell boy was Jack London. However, the man understood him.

@@bobzeepl Fair enough, but the expression predates its use in banknotes, right?

@@thiagodeandrade7081 sure, but I was talking about whether or not the 49er could have known it, which would be probably only if it was written on the notes :) there is one exception - Greenback dollars in the 1860s. Those said it, so people wouldnt think it was some funny money. Which makes me think I am actually wrong, because the general public needed to understand the term. So maybe 49er would too.

That would be an excellent idea. Mostly cause Data is an every man so anybody can play him and make him ageless. And because he is not human we all can enjoy him attempting it and how other react to him.

I would have loved to see that. But i fear it is the constraint of star trek that makes his character interesting - that is:regarding how he is put in situations that deal with humans and lifeforms. I fear Data's own show would be repetitive. I think Data is most interesting like it is in TNG- humans/lifeforms have a drama, and Data must react and cope. It is humans/life forms which make him interesting- as we must admit we still view him as a machine- despite wanting to accept him as organic life.

@@cetyl2626 Just about any AI chatbot today is Data... it is the circumstances and polarity with the persons he interacts with that make him interesting.

I think I would have responded by saying "Night Court".

I don't think he'd cheat, he's pretty morally upstanding. That is to say, he'd definitely be counting cards, keeping track of his odds, and minmaxing his chances of winning... but those are skills that any human is capable of learning, and he's just naturally good at it because he's a supercomputer. It's not cheating, it's strategy. But he wouldn't use deceit, trickery, or keep track of the order of the cards in the deck to know for sure what everyone else is holding. He also literally has the perfect pokerface. Completely unreadable in every sense of the word.

I beginning to believe that Data didn't have to cheat, but detected his opponents cheating, so used it to his advantage: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aZ58ZKR_vrPWnoU.html

One, he knew what century he was in. He knew he had so much more accumulated analysis of poker in his head than anyone did then. Two: I firmly believe Data would cheat to win if necessary. He's done it. I don't think he HAD to here, but he likely would have if it were possible.

Can't beat the math.

Riker trained him well.

so did colombo

I quit a high stakes game because I realized that 2 of the players were cheating. Warned the man who invited me to play...he ignored my advice.

That was Riker's line.

@@SPDFRK HAW HAW

@@SPDFRK Yeah, but >>JEAN>LUC>PICARD(!!!)

Says the guy with the French name and a British accent.

Data (Brent Spiner) acquired enough to manage in late nineteenth-century (1800s) San Francisco. Most workers then earned round $3-5 USD weekly.

I remember he handed the porter a big wad of cash to buy him supplies and pay for his room, bought suitable clothing, and got that Native American's hat to boot!

Yeah, that is the cough of tuberculosis in all likelihood.

I'm with you on that. I think it is, too.

I agree, but yet even in this episode we see that he is lying. So I would offer that while he's getting better at lying, he's still easy to read.

He's not lying, he's "using cover" :)

the gold part will still be gold. he'll have a com badge with a tooth imprint

@@psyantologist I doubt that in the era of STNG; likely a much harder alloy by then.

You can use it to kill Cybermen

Too be honest. If I had the phasers. I'd just start stunning everyone and robbing their money.

@@mrchow489 Not very Starfleet of ya...

It's data. No freaking way they would be able to pickpocket data. (Oh my god, I'm such a nerd.)

I'm reminded of the scene in City on the Edge of Forever from the original series. McCoy goes back in time and loses his phaser, and some random guy picks it up and accidentally disintegrates himself (and it).

@@skulver The bellhop said "It's six bits a day, or four dollars a week." Six bits is the equivalent of 75 cents. So the price for a week at the daily rate would have been $5.25. The term "bit" comes from the old Spanish real coin, also known as a "piece of eight". In the early years of America, using foreign silver coinage was quite common, and Spanish coinage was frequently used in the American West. The piece of eight was so called because it was frequently subdivided (literally cut into pieces) into up to eight segments to make change, and each segment was called a "bit". So two bits was a quarter, four bits 50 cents, etc.

Most powerful piece of technology on the planet, and completely useless without another one in range.

​@@kelli217 The power source on a personal communicator is strong enough to power a personal force field. (As shown in the holodeck episode, fist full of datas I think.) This is something star trek never did well: Energy density. The battery on that thing is by definition a weapon. Also it's an incredible energy projector, it's like a planet's worth of transmission gear and precision all semi-automated. Though generally of course you're right, short of accidently making it explode, there's not much this era could do with it. Even with focused study. It's not even magical appearing, it's just a brooch basically. XD

@@Innomen A broach yes. Worth 3 shiny dollars.

"Most powerful piece of technology on the planet" You're forgetting 2 things: the phaser on Data's hip, and Data himself.

@@sentinel76 Very true.

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Tell that to riker

Why would he, he got 291000 views for a five minute clip of a show from 20 years ago . Very clever indeed

Well played

He is secretly moonlighting as a Dr. Who villain.

Plus, if he wants to fool the Kai he needs practice acting non-Cardassian...

The 1840s? Three or four slugs of the booze they called whiskey back then and it would explain why they were not surprised about Data's pale white completion.

our boy Data cleaned out that whole table lol he def got it back

@@rockthecasbah420 He never had it again after that. I've watched carefully for it. It's possible the guy from New Orleans refused to sell it back to him.

In 1893, yes. But it's a reference to "shave and a haircut - two bits!"

@@ReptilianLepton and in the essence of a "bit" is that they would actually cut a silver dollar into 8 pieces equaling 12.5 cents or a bit hence the idea of two bits being a quarter.

Just a Vulcan thing.

I never understood that, It's probably impossible to be a fully intelligent being and incabable of lying. Data obviously must lie in certain situations during his career like covert operations and so would have to be able to fabricate truths.

Technically Data doesn't have a nationality, per se. Even though his creator, Noonien Soong, has a Chinese name, he's clearly not Chinese.

The Vulcans merely claim lying is illogical. They'll happily lie, if there's a logical reason to do so.

Data can deceive opponents. He has Morality programming, not specifically "unable to lie" programming. In fact "Clues" hinges on him not telling the full truth to the crew because it would put them at risk.