It’s the Casino Royale episode! Whee!!!
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Picard’s face while listening to the text of the Hotel Royale novel is like our faces while watching most of the first season of ST: TNG :'D :'D :'D
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I love this episode so much because it’s basically a holodeck episode in everything but name.
Some aliens recreate a 21st century novel titled Hotel Royale for a 21st American astronaut that was pulled to this planet by the aliens. Unfortunately, the novel is not very good, and is filled with clichés and shallow characters, and that’s what makes it so fun! It’s like the show writers were given permission to write some things badly, and they went nuts.
I love that the solution to this episode is for Data to win a ridiculous amount at the craps table so that he, Riker, and Worf can become the foreign investors described in the book, and buy the hotel outright. They escape the hotel and beam back up to the ship.
I love this episode so much, I started calling my friend in high school Matthews because his first name was Todd (his surname was not Matthews) because the fictional Hotel Royale novel was written by fictional author Todd Matthews.
And to think, this is only the second-best casino-based episode in the history of Star Trek! The top spot goes to “Badda-Bing Badda-Bang” from DS9 :D
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