History Recap / StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E15BaddaBingBaddaBang

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: {{Discussed|Trope}}. Sisko, who is African-American, is annoyed at the popularity of Vic's holosuite program, which gives a politically correct depiction of 1960s Las Vegas that leaves out the 1960s USA's racial segregation. Sisko points out that in the real 1960s, neither he nor his also-black girlfriend would have been allowed into the casino except as performers or menial staff members. She argues however that it's defensible as being how that era ''should'' have been in reality, and as pointed out above, Sisko is actually ''wrong'' about Vegas: Creator/FrankSinatra and the Rat Pack had effectively desegregated the city at this point by refusing to patronize casinos which wouldn't let Sammy Davis Jr. gamble, as none of the owners were willing to risk pissing Sinatra off.

* EvilIsPetty: Frankie dislikes Vic because he used to beat him at stickball

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: {{Discussed|Trope}}. Sisko, who is African-American, is annoyed at the popularity of Vic's holosuite program, which gives a politically correct depiction of 1960s Las Vegas that leaves out the 1960s USA's racial segregation. Sisko points out that in the real 1960s, neither he nor his also-black girlfriend would have been allowed into the casino except as performers or menial staff members. She argues however that it's defensible as being how that era ''should'' have been in reality.

* PowerWalk: The senior staff walks in their con outfits through the promenade. [[HangingALampshade Lampshaded]] by Quark, who observes the Power Walk and tells Morn something big is obviously going down at Vic's.

* VideoGameCaringPotential: Discussed in-universe. Worf does not understand why people would consider a hologram as a friend since it's barely more than a an appliance. The rest of the cast disagrees and do their best to help Vic.

* LaxativePrank: Bashir gets rid of the lone remaining monkey counter by spiking his cocktail with ipecac, making him run off to puke.

The group gets together and plans a [[TheCaper heist]] to steal the casino back from Frankie, who is financed by the kingpin Zemo. Kira plays the HoneyTrap and seduces Frankie to distract him. Odo befriends Cheech using his shapeshifting and convinces him to hire Ezri as a cocktail waitress. Vic convinces Frankie to let him stick around on the promise to bring in a high-rolling gambler to the casino. As all of this goes down, Kasidy confronts Sisko on why he's so aloof to Vic. The captain finally admits that he finds the PoliticallyCorrectHistory in Vic's program distasteful, since it white-washes the fact that black people were still treated as second-class citizens in the 1960s. Kasidy argues that the program doesn't make people forget about history. Instead, it shows them how things ought to have been, where the only limitations are what they impose on themselves. Sisko is impressed by the speech.

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: {{Discussed|Trope}}. Sisko, who is African-American, is annoyed at the popularity of Vic's holosuite program, which gives a politically correct depiction of 1960s Las Vegas that leaves out the 1960s USA's racial segregation. Sisko points out that in the real 1960s, neither he nor his also-black girlfriend would have been allowed into the casino except as performers or menial staff members. She argues however that it's defensible as being how that era ''should'' have been in reality. It's somewhat averted, in that Vic is a pretty blatant {{expy}} of Music/FrankSinatra. Sinatra himself was way ahead of his time regarding racial issues, and in fact forced a few hotels to desegregate (his group would refuse to play at hotels that practiced racial segregation).

The group gets together and plans a [[TheCaper heist]] to steal the casino back from Frankie, who is financed by the kingpin Zemo. Kira plays the HoneyTrap and seduces Frankie to distract him. Odo befriends Cheech using his shapechanging and convinces him to hire Ezri as a cocktail waitress. Vic convinces Frankie to let him stick around on the promise to bring in a high-rolling gambler to the casino. As all of this goes down, Kasidy confronts Sisko on why he's so aloof to Vic. The captain finally admits that he finds the PoliticallyCorrectHistory in Vic's program distasteful, since it white-washes the fact that black people were still treated as second-class citizens in the 1960s. Kasidy argues that the program doesn't make people forget about history. Instead, it shows them how things ought to have been, where the only limitations are those they impose on themselves. Sisko is impressed by the speech.

* BreatherEpisode: In a long and dark war arc. Also an inversion, as the last lighthearted episode before a string of serious episodes.

* ContinuityNod: In the 24th century, racism - at least between humans - seems to be a thing of the past to the point that such a concept is completely foreign to most humans in the ''Star Trek'' universe. So why does Sisko bristle over going to the 1960s, even through a holodeck? Because as Benny in [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E13FarBeyondTheStars "Far Beyond The Stars,"]] he lived in that time period, and he knows full well how deeply racism ran in humanity back then.
* DespiteThePlan: Nothing goes as planned (the count room has a different accountant, someone spills the spiked drink, the safe has an auto-relock tumbler, etc.), but everyone is able to [[XanatosSpeedChess improvise enough to pull it off]]. They actually show us what the perfectly-performed plan looks like, too, and even mislead us a little into thinking it's the actual performance of the plan, with the characters narrating/explaining their parts.

* FantasticRacism: Downplayed; Worf likes Vic's singing and has nothing at all against the guy, but doesn't consider a hologram to be a person in any way.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Las Vegas was actually much more racially tolerant than Sisko believes. The Rat Pack helped desegregate casinos by refusing to play at any venue that wouldn't allow Sammy Davis Jr. to gamble in them. and thus got many casinos to repeal their policies regarding blacks. Segregation had effectively ended in Vegas by 1960, two years before the program is set. However, Sisko is likely correct that black people would still be treated differently than white people even in a desegregated Las Vegas and certainly much worse in most other corners of the country.

The group gets together and plans a [[TheCaper heist]] to steal the casino back from Frankie, who is financed by the kingpin Zemo. Kira plays the HoneyTrap and seduces Frankie to distract him. Odo befriends Cheech using his shapechanging and convinces him to hire Ezri as a cocktail waitress. Vic convinces Frankie to let him stick around on the promise to bring in a hig-hrolling gambler to the casino. As all of this gets planned, Kasidy confronts Sisko on why he's so aloof to Vic. The captain finally admits that he finds the PoliticallyCorrectHistory in Vic's distasteful, since it white-washes the fact that black people were still treated as second-class citizens in the 1960s. Kasidy argues that the program doesn't make people forget about history. Instead, it shows them how things ought to have been, where the only limitations are those they impose on themselves. Sisko is impressed by the speech.

The crew go over their plan. Kira will lure Frankie out of the casino to the bar. When one of the two money cointers leaves to make a phone call, Ezri will have Bashir poison a martini with ipecac and deliver it to the lone moneycounter remaining. When he leaves to puke, Nog will slip inside and open the safe. Odo will transform from the cocktail tray and put all the money in a briefcase he makes out of himself. Kasidy will distract the guard by accusing O'Brien of stealing her money. Meanwhile, a high roller will win a bunch of money to further distract the gangsters on the casino floor. As if on cue, Sisko arrives to join in on the heist and takes the role of the high-roller.

* ShoutOut: During the caper, Bashir orders a [[Film/JamesBond vodka martini]], but stirred, not shaken.

The group gets together and plans a [[TheCaper heist]] to steal the casino back from Frankie, who is financed by the kingpin Zemo. Kira plays TheHoneypot and seduces Frankie to distract him. Odo befriends Cheech using his shapechanging and convinces him to hire Ezri as a cocktail waitress. Vic convinces Frankie to let him stick around on the promise to bring in a hig-hrolling gambler to the casino. As all of this gets planned, Kasidy confronts Sisko on why he's so aloof to Vic. The captain finally admits that he finds the PoliticallyCorrectHistory in Vic's distasteful, since it white-washes the fact that black people were still treated as second-class citizens in the 1960s. Kasidy argues that the program doesn't make people forget about history. Instead, it shows them how things ought to have been, where the only limitations are those they impose on themselves. Sisko is impressed by the speech.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Kind of a bizarre one but notable given Sisko's speech. Specifically, the reality was slightly LighterAndSofter than Sisko believes. The Rat Pack boycotted casinos which wouldn't allow Sammy Davis Junior to gamble in them and thus got many casinos to repeal their policies regarding blacks. Which is notable given Vic is an in-universe {{expy}} for Sinatra, and he's always been nice to Kasidy. Also, segregation was ended in the Vegas strip in 1960 but the program is set in 1962. Of course, the difference between desegregation in Vegas and the program setting itself is only two years, and Sisko ''is'' correct on how a black person would have been treated in the ''majority'' of the country at that time, so it's plausible for Sisko to be unaware of this finer detail of the era. His own personal experience that informs his knowledge of the time period came from the Benny Russell visions, which included two cops (wearing human-form faces of Dukat and Weyoun) beating him up on the street and leaving him for dead.

* CaperCrew: The senior leadership of [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]] decides to steal $1 million from the hotel count room.
** The Mastermind - the whole crew contributes in theory. Truthfully, when the Retired Thief joins, it becomes ''his'' plan.
** The Partner In Crime - since the whole crew is involved, they all fit. O'Brien and Bashir stand out, since they were there when the mob arrived.
** The Backer - Vic, whose risking both his own "life" (his memories of the crew, since this is a hologram with safeties on, they won't lose anything), and supplying the High Roller distraction with his nest egg.
** The Coordinator - the lack of this role IS noticeable when the plan goes badly.
** The Pickpocket - Rather inverted with Bashir; he slips Ipecac into a martini for the count room accountant.
** The Inside Man - Ezri, working as a cocktail waitress, delivers the spiked martini and thus can let Nog and Odo into the count room.
** The Distraction - most of the crew do this job, in different ways.
*** Vic is hanging out with the High Roller, they're distracting the casino customers.
*** [[DistractedByTheSexy Kira is hanging out with Frankie Eyes, the new boss]], keeping him from spotting Vic.
*** Kasidy is "drunk" and distracts the guards on the casino floor by saying that...
*** [[WoundedGazelleGambit Miles has stolen her chips,]] but he says he's innocent.
** The Burglar - Nog is a safecracker, using his Ferengi hearing to listen to the tumblers.
** The Muscle - Odo is the one who will carry out a suitcase full of $1 million, and make it look easy. Notably, the "suitcase" in question is actually just a part of Odo's body morphed into one, making him double as the The Acquirer, since it was the only way for them to get a suitcase into the count room to begin with.
** The Retired Thief - they need one more person to do the role of High Roller, but no one seems interested. An earlier conversation convinces Sisko to join them, and he takes over from there.

* DespiteThePlan: Nothing goes as planned (the count room has a different accountant, someone spills the spiked drink, the safe has an auto-relock tumbler, etc.), but everyone is able to [[XanatosSpeedChess improvise enough to pull it off]]. They actually show us what the perfectly-performed plan looks like, too, and even mislead us a little into thinking it's the actual performance of the plan, with the characters narrating/explaining their parts. This makes the blunder-filled version that much more hilarious. And exciting. (Of course, this is the common inversion of the UnspokenPlanGuarantee: since we hear the plan, you know it won't go that smoothly in practice.)

* HolodeckMalfunction: Averted. The holodeck is actually working exactly as intended in this episode. The crew isn't in any danger, only the holographic Vic is in any danger. It turns out that the entire scenario was intentionally written into Vic's program as an expansion pack of sorts by Vic's programmer, and he put safeguards into it to keep people from fiddling with the code to remove the threat. If they do, Vic's memory of them will be wiped and he will be reset - which he views as death. And if they fail, his character will die and the program will still reset. The solution has to be done in-game and in-character. This is the one instance in all of Trek where the crisis is caused by the holodeck operating [[GoneHorriblyRight exactly as intended]].

* LaxativePrank: The plan to get rid of the accountant.

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: {{Discussed|Trope}}. Sisko, who is African-American, is annoyed at the popularity of Vic's holosuite program, which gives a politically-correct depiction of 1960s Las Vegas which leaves out the 1960s USA's racial segregation. Sisko points out that in the real 1960s, neither he nor his also-black girlfriend would have been allowed into the casino except as performers or menial staff members. She argues however that it's defensible as being how that era ''should'' have been in reality. It's somewhat averted, in that Vic is a pretty blatant {{expy}} of Music/FrankSinatra. Sinatra himself was way ahead of his time regarding racial issues, and in fact forced a few hotels to desegregate (his group would refuse to play at hotels that practiced racial segregation).

Vic Fontaine's, the hotel/nightclub the crew has been enjoying, has been bought out by the mob, and Vic is kicked to the curb. Many of the regulars are upset, and trying to figure out what they can do to rescue the program. It turns out to be part of the original code from the guy who wrote the program, as a way of keeping things interesting. If they manage to get rid of Vic's childhood nemesis "Frankie Eyes", the nightclub will return to normal. Because the program was written to require a "period-specific" solution to get rid of the gangsters, the crew decides there's only one thing to do - [[HeistEpisode steal a million dollars from right under the mob's noses.]]

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: {{Discussed}}. Sisko, who is African-American, is annoyed at the popularity of Vic's holosuite program, which gives a politically-correct depiction of 1960s Las Vegas which leaves out the 1960s USA's racial segregation. Sisko points out that in the real 1960s, neither he nor his also-black girlfriend would have been allowed into the casino, even as menial staff members. She argues however that it's defensible as being how that era ''should'' have been in reality. It's somewhat averted, in that Vic is a pretty blatant {{expy}} of Music/FrankSinatra. Sinatra himself was way ahead of his time regarding racial issues, and in fact forced a few hotels to desegregate (his group would refuse to play at hotels that practiced racial segregation).