if you think about who was playing poker on the Enterprise you will lose your mind. -Data: cannot help but count cards -Geordi: can perceive both skin flush AND see through cards -Deanna Troi: an actual empath -Worf: Worfhttps://twitter.com/CinnamonHH/status/1225930137549639682 …
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Replying to @meakoopa @RickGodden
I think part of the takeaway from this is that they are all honorable enough not to cheat even with these decided advantages. They're all officers in Starfleet, and their first duty is to the truth (while cheating implies some level of dishonesty).
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There's also no actual point to cheating other than to be an asshole, since their society has no such thing as money so these games can only be for fun
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That seems to rest on the premise then that nobody would ever cheat at a game with no stakes, which really doesn't hold water.
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Well, not if the game is with your fellow Federation officers you have to work with every day
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Replying to @arthur_affect @synthpopisback and
There IS some speculation that maybe Geordi can see all the cards but, since the games aren't for any kind of real money, he's just choosing to throw some hands and win others to keep things interesting
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Replying to @arthur_affect @synthpopisback and
See also how they generally trust Data to be the dealer because of how precise his physical movements are, meaning both that he's the best at actually shuffling the deck so it's fully randomized and that he could totally stack the deck every time if he wanted to
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Which directly comes up in the time loop episode
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