The Royale (Episode)
| Series | Star Trek: The Next Generation |
| Season | 2 |
| Episode | 12 |
| Production Number | 138 |
| Release Date | 27 Mar 1989 |
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Stardate 42625.4: The crew is trapped in an alien casino
Puzzled by the recovery of a chunk of debris from a twenty-first-century Earth [[S.S. Charybdis|spacecraft, Worf, Data, and Riker beam down into the middle of the lone structure they find on the nearest uninhabited planet. After passing through a revolving door set in an otherwise black void, they cannot escape from what appears to be a resort casino named the Hotel Royale. Bizarre scenes now unfold before them: a clichéd love triangle, gamblers who invite the Starfleet officers to join them, and finally the discovery of the remains of a twenty-first-century American astronaut in a hotel suite.
There, Data also finds a book titled The Hotel Royale, and the pieces of the mystery begin to fall into place. By reading the astronaut's diary, the away team learns taht aliens found his disabled ship and created a world in which he could live out his life. Unfortunately, they used the badly-written pulp mystery novel as their model. As the love triangle resolves itself yet again with a mobster gunning down a bellboy, the trapped away team finds a way to escape the hotel. Using the novel's ending, in which foreign investors buy the Royale, Data returns to the craps tables and breaks the bank, angering the casino characters, but allowing the away team to exit for beam-up.
Charybdis wreckage
Director
Cliff Bole
Writer
Keith Mills
Starring
Patrick Stewart … Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes … Commander Will Riker
Brent Spiner … Lieutenant Commander Data
Marina Sirtis … Counselor Deanna Troi
LeVar Burton … Lieutenant Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn … Lieutenant Worf
Wil Wheaton … Acting Ensign Wesley Crusher
Guest Starring
Nobel Willingham … Texas
Sam Anderson … Assistant Manager
Jill Jacobson … Vanessa
Leo Garcia … Bellboy
Colm Meaney … O'Brien
Gregory Beecroft … Mikey D.
