Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Poker, and the Morality of Lt. Commander Data

As everyone knows, Lt. Commander Data of Star Trek: The Next Generation is programmed to be morally good, by and large. He's also a skilled poker player, exploiting every statistical advantage.




So what happens when he's playing poker and one of his opponents accidentally reveals part or all of their hand? Perhaps this opponent drops a card on the floor, or maybe Data merely catches a glimpse of his hand through a reflection. A shrewd poker player would exploit this to their advantage, but doing so would be immoral.

How would Data react?

1 comment:

shornk said...

I figure Data would probably alert any sloppy play in between hands to the sloppy player.