Riker, Worf and Data are trapped on a planet in the "Hotel Royale" where they must play out the plot of an old gambling novel in order to escape.

Diana Muldaur (Dr. Katherine Pulaski)
Sam Anderson (Assistant Manager)
Jill Jacobson (Vanessa)
Leo Garcia (Bellboy)
Noble Willingham (Texas)

Colm Meaney (Chief Miles O'Brien)
Gregory Breecroft (Mickey D)

• Tracy Tormé left the writing staff after his original screenplay for this episode was butchered by producer Maurice Hurley. Keith Mills is a pseudonym. (I wouldn't want my name listed as the writer of this episode either….)