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* BluffTheImpostor: Twain attempts this on Data. He fails.
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** Bellhop Jack London mentions going to Alaska.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Data put all of his late night ship games of poker to good use.
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** May double as a ShoutOut to [[SaturdayNightLive The Coneheads]].
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** May double as a ShoutOut to [[SaturdayNightLive [[Series/SaturdayNightLive The Coneheads]].
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** Then again, we ARE talking about SanFrancisco...
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** Then again, we ARE talking about SanFrancisco...UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco...
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** Deep Throat from ''Series/TheXFiles'' as Mark Twain.
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** Deep Throat from ''Series/TheXFiles'' as Mark Twain.Twain (and in his second appearance on this show).
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* CallBack: Guinan had earlier stated that a bald man saved her life once. Here the camera brings special attention to Picard taking off his hat after he saves her.
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* CallBack: Guinan had earlier stated that a bald man saved was kind to her life once. Here the camera brings special attention to Picard taking off his hat after he saves her.
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* YouCantFightFate: Data tells this to Picard. Regardless, Picard still wants to give it a try.
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* YouCantFightFate: Data tells this to Picard. Regardless, Picard still wants to give it a try. [[ForegoneConclusion It goes about as well as you'd expect]].
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* YouCantFightFate: Data tells this to Picard. Regardless, Picard still wants to give it a try.
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Surprisingly, Data doesn't. Though he does mention how some people would think that LivingForeverIsAwesome.
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* HistoricalInJoke: In 1893, while putting up monitors in gaslights, Riker tells a guard it's to proof them against earthquakes. The guard scoffs at the notion of an earthquake in San Francisco, but 10 years later...
** A brief one when Clemens is brought up to the Enterprise and asks if they've ever spotted Halley's Comet. Clemens was in fact born exactly two weeks after the comet appeared in the sky in 1835. He wrote in his autobiography that he hoped to die the next time it was sighted, and did so in 1910, the day after the comet passed by Earth once again.
** A brief one when Clemens is brought up to the Enterprise and asks if they've ever spotted Halley's Comet. Clemens was in fact born exactly two weeks after the comet appeared in the sky in 1835. He wrote in his autobiography that he hoped to die the next time it was sighted, and did so in 1910, the day after the comet passed by Earth once again.
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** Deep Throat from ''Series/TheXFiles'' as Mark Twain.
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The Enterprise ''Enterprise'' is called back to Earth to investigate an unusual artifact - which turns out to be Data's head, apparently left untouched for five centuries. While investigating the cause behind this, Data enters a portal which leads him into 19th Century America. Meanwhile, the rest of the crew discovers that shapeshifting aliens are kidnapping human life energy from that time period and feeding on it.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Mark Alaimo (Gul Dukat from ''DeepSpaceNine'') as a gambler.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Mark Alaimo (Gul Dukat from ''DeepSpaceNine'') ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'') as a gambler.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The people of 19th century San Francisco seem rather blasé about "a man with gold skin in his pajamas appearing out of nowhere", as Phil Farrand put it.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The people of 19th century San Francisco seem rather blasé about "a man with gold skin in his pajamas appearing out of nowhere", as Phil Farrand put it. it.
**Then again, we ARE talking about SanFrancisco...
**Then again, we ARE talking about SanFrancisco...
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** Alternatively, one could say that this is ''completely'' out of character for the cynical Twain.
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* MayflyDecemberFriendship: When Data's head is found among 20th century relics on Earth, the crew attempt to comfort him about his destruction. Rather than being morose about this, Data is delighted that he will have a "death," as his expected longevity means that so many of his friends in Starfleet will have lived and died that he will be unable to remember them all properly; whereas having only a limited few close friends means that Data can cherish them much more dearly. See Literature.
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* MayflyDecemberFriendship: When Data's head is found among 20th century relics on Earth, the crew attempt to comfort him about his destruction. Rather than being morose about this, Data is delighted that he will have a "death," as his expected longevity means that so many of his friends in Starfleet will have lived and died that he will be unable to remember them all properly; whereas having only a limited few close friends means that Data can cherish them much more dearly. See Literature.
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* MayflyDecemberFriendship: When Data's head is found among 20th century relics on Earth, the crew attempt to comfort him about his destruction. Rather than being morose about this, Data is delighted that he will have a "death," as his expected longevity means that so many of his friends in Starfleet will have lived and died that he will be unable to remember them all properly; whereas having only a limited few close friends means that Data can cherish them much more dearly. See Literature.
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** This was really the culmination of a story arc began in Season 2 where Data had been steadily improving his poker skills.
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* InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous: Samuel Clemens (aka Creator/MarkTwain) gets involved for no good reason at all (you could replace him with a non-famous 19th century person, and plot would be pretty much the same), and the hotel bellboy turns out to be Creator/JackLondon. There's no evidence that the two writers ever met in real life, and Clemens wasn't even in San Francisco when this episode takes place – he was touring Europe at the time.
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* InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous: Samuel Clemens (aka Creator/MarkTwain) gets involved in the plot for no good reason at all (you could replace him with a non-famous 19th century person, and plot the story would still be pretty much the same), and the hotel bellboy turns out to be Creator/JackLondon. There's no evidence that the two writers ever met in real life, and Clemens wasn't even in San Francisco when this episode takes place – he was touring Europe at the time.
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* HaveWeMetYet: Picard and Guinan. This is the ultimate outcome of some {{Foreshadowing}} in an earlier episode where Guinan said she had known Picard for a ''long'' time.
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* HaveWeMetYet: Picard and Guinan. This is the ultimate outcome of some {{Foreshadowing}} in an earlier episode where Guinan said she had known Picard for a ''long'' time. time.
* InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous: Samuel Clemens (aka Creator/MarkTwain) gets involved for no good reason at all (you could replace him with a non-famous 19th century person, and plot would be pretty much the same), and the hotel bellboy turns out to be Creator/JackLondon. There's no evidence that the two writers ever met in real life, and Clemens wasn't even in San Francisco when this episode takes place – he was touring Europe at the time.
* InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous: Samuel Clemens (aka Creator/MarkTwain) gets involved for no good reason at all (you could replace him with a non-famous 19th century person, and plot would be pretty much the same), and the hotel bellboy turns out to be Creator/JackLondon. There's no evidence that the two writers ever met in real life, and Clemens wasn't even in San Francisco when this episode takes place – he was touring Europe at the time.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: Troi and Mark Twain have an exchange comparing each other's time periods. [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped It works, though:]]
-->'''Mark Twain''': My dear girl, I come from a time when men achieve power and wealth by standing on the backs of the poor. Where prejudice and intolerance are commonplace. And power is an end unto itself. And now you're telling me that's not how it is anymore?"
-->'''Troi''': Yes, Exactly.
-->'''Mark Twain''': ...[[ItMakesSenseInContext maybe it's worth giving up a cigar.]]
-->'''Mark Twain''': My dear girl, I come from a time when men achieve power and wealth by standing on the backs of the poor. Where prejudice and intolerance are commonplace. And power is an end unto itself. And now you're telling me that's not how it is anymore?"
-->'''Troi''': Yes, Exactly.
-->'''Mark Twain''': ...[[ItMakesSenseInContext maybe it's worth giving up a cigar.]]
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Data sits down at a poker table with the most disreputable-looking bunch of 19th-Century gamblers you've ever seen, trades his communicator for a three-dollar entry fee, and starts dealing. Data's next scene is returning to his room with period-appropriate clothing and a briefcase full of cash, with young bellhop Jack in tow, gazing at him in admiration.
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* TheWildCardExcuse: The answer to any question about Data's strange appearance is that he's a Frenchman. Everyone immediately understands.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: This wasn't supposed to be a two-part cliffhanger episode, but with ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' on the horizon, it became one to assure audiences that TNG wasn't going anywhere yet.
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The Enterprise is called back to Earth to investigate an unusual artifact - which turns out to be Data's head, apparently left untouched for five centuries. While investigating the cause behind this, Data enters a portal which leads him into 19th Century America. Meanwhile, the rest of the crew discovers that shapeshifting aliens are kidnapping human life energy from that time period and feeding on it.it.
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* OfCorsetHurts: It's never explicitly brought up, but in a subtle touch, Troi and Crusher both uncomfortably feel their sides while dressed in period costume.
* DarkWorld: The Devidians 'out of temporal phase' state is treated like this.
* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: Picard encodes a message on Data's head using an iron filing to tap it out in binary code.
* GrandfatherParadox: The ''Enterprise'' almost unleashes one until Data stops it--Riker was planning to destroy the Devidian base with photon torpedoes, unaware that the explosion would propagate through the time portal and end up destroying 19th-century Earth.
* HaveWeMetYet: Picard and Guinan. This is the ultimate outcome of some {{Foreshadowing}} in an earlier episode where Guinan said she had known Picard for a ''long'' time.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Guinan looks no different in 1893 than she does in 2368.
* StableTimeLoop
* TheSlowPath: Data's head.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The Devidians.
* YoungFutureFamousPeople: The bellhop who turns out to be JackLondon. Samuel Clemens (MarkTwain), however, is already famous at the time.
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* OfCorsetHurts: It's never explicitly brought up, but in a subtle touch, Troi and Crusher both uncomfortably feel their sides while dressed in period costume.
* DarkWorld: The Devidians 'out of temporal phase' state is treated like this.
* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: Picard encodes a message on Data's head using an iron filing to tap it out in binary code.
* GrandfatherParadox: The ''Enterprise'' almost unleashes one until Data stops it--Riker was planning to destroy the Devidian base with photon torpedoes, unaware that the explosion would propagate through the time portal and end up destroying 19th-century Earth.
* HaveWeMetYet: Picard and Guinan. This is the ultimate outcome of some {{Foreshadowing}} in an earlier episode where Guinan said she had known Picard for a ''long'' time.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Guinan looks no different in 1893 than she does in 2368.
* StableTimeLoop
* TheSlowPath: Data's head.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The Devidians.
* YoungFutureFamousPeople: The bellhop who turns out to be JackLondon. Samuel Clemens (MarkTwain), however, is already famous at the time.
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