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* BloodKnight: Worf lets his inner Klingon out during a BarBrawl. "I'm beginning to see the appeal of this program!"

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* BloodKnight: Worf lets his inner Klingon out during a BarBrawl. "I'm "[[NotSoAboveItAll I'm beginning to see the appeal of this program!"program!]]"



* CallBack: Instead of rehearsing a play, Riker reads part of "Ode to Spot" from "Schisms," three episodes prior.

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* CallBack: CallBack:
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Instead of rehearsing a play, Riker reads part of "Ode to Spot" from "Schisms," three episodes prior.prior.
** Picard plays his flute from "The Inner Light".



* HistoryMarchesOn (InUniverse): The Old West is now referred to as the Ancient West.



* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: InUniverse, Worf is shocked by the presence of a bordello with hookers, which Alexander explains is because Lt. Barclay helped him write the program.

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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: InUniverse, Worf is shocked by the presence of a bordello with hookers, which Alexander explains is because [[CovertPervert Lt. Barclay helped him write the program.program]].
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* BloodKnight: Worf lets his inner Klingon out during a barroom brawl. "I'm beginning to see the appeal of this program!"

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* BloodKnight: Worf lets his inner Klingon out during a barroom brawl.BarBrawl. "I'm beginning to see the appeal of this program!"
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* PlotHole: It never once occurs to anyone to see if the holodecks are in use once they realize the problem. In fact, as far as we can tell, none of the others ever find out what Worf, Alexander, and Deanna were going through.
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* ShoutOut: The episode title is, of course, a riff on the title of the classic western ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars''.
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* BountyHunter: Troi assumes the role of one, named "Durango", as part of the simulation.
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* The47Society: Subroutine C47 is messed up by Data and Geordi's experiment.
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* SelfDeprecation: Eli swears to punish whoever drew his "Wanted" poster, saying, "I'm ten times uglier than that, ain't I?"
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* FailsafeFailure: Honestly, you would think that by now they would know not to plug so much as somebody's USB flash drive into the ship's computer, much less try hooking Data's ''brain'' up! Geordi and the computer are like Wesley and the warp drive -- trying to do ''anything'' involving it ''never'' ends well! Double that when holograms are involved.
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* ShowdownAtHighNoon: Okay, not exactly noon, but close enough.
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* NoSell: One of Eli's {{Mooks}} hits Worf over the head with a chair and doesn't faze him at all.


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* RuleOfThree: Picard's flute-playing gets interrupted three times.
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** InUniverse as well, given Worf's distressed reaction.
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* ActingForTwo: Actually, five. Brent Spiner was busy today.


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* RidingIntoTheSunset: The episode ends with the ''Enterprise'' flying into the sunset.
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* GratuitousSpanish: The Mexican stereotype who hangs out with the Hollanders talks like this.



* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: InUniverse, Worf is shocked by the presence of a bordello with hookers, which Alexander explains is because Lt. Barclay helped him write the program.

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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: InUniverse, Worf is shocked by the presence of a bordello with hookers, which Alexander explains is because Lt. Barclay helped him write the program.program.
* WomanScorned: Annie feels this way when Worf doesn't respond to her advances.

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* ClickHello: How Troi's character enters the program, when she blasts Eli Hollander's hat off his head with a shotgun.
* DeflectorShield: Worf rigs up a personal force field from his communicator and some telegraph parts, which works just long enough to survive the initial showdown.



* HolodeckMalfunction
* MesACrowd: Data's link to the ship's computer inadvertently changes everyone into a Data duplicate.

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* HolodeckMalfunction
HolodeckMalfunction: A variant - the replicators, holodeck and some areas of the computer get replaced with Data's personal files, images and programs, while Data himself starts walking like a cowboy and talking with an exaggerated Texas drawl.
* MesACrowd: Data's link to the ship's computer inadvertently changes everyone all the holograms in Alexander's program into a Data duplicate.duplicates.
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* PrisonerExchange

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* PrisonerExchangePrisonerExchange: Hollander wants to exchange his son for Alexander.
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* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: Worf does this in the climax.
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* CallBack: Instead of rehearsing a play, Riker reads part of "Ode to Spot" from "Schisms," three episodes prior.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: InUniverse, Worf is shocked by the presence of hookers, which Alexander explains is because Lt. Barclay helped him write the program.

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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: InUniverse, Worf is shocked by the presence of a bordello with hookers, which Alexander explains is because Lt. Barclay helped him write the program.
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* AllPartOfTheShow: When Worf meets the Data-ized Frank Hollander, he initially thinks Data is playing a part like Troi, until almost getting killed by him.

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* AllPartOfTheShow: AndYouThoughtItWasAGame: When Worf meets the Data-ized Frank Hollander, he initially thinks Data is playing a part like Troi, until almost getting killed by him.
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* ClicheStorm: Of westerns.

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* ClicheStorm: [[invoked]] Of westerns.westerns.
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* BloodKnight: Worf lets his inner Klingon out during a barroom brawl. "I'm beginning to see the appeal of this program!"
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* NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction: Alexander is upset by how [[CurbStompBattle Worf easily beats Eli Hollander]], prompting him to raise the difficulty level.

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* NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction: Alexander is upset by how [[CurbStompBattle how Worf easily beats Eli Hollander]], prompting him to raise the difficulty level.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The working title was [[Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly "The Good, the Bad, and the Klingon"]].

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The working title of the episode was [[Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly "The Good, the Bad, and the Klingon"]].
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The working title was [[Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly "The Good, the Bad, and the Klingon"]].

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* DogFoodDiet: Another consequence of Data's link is the replicators produce nothing but cat food.



* PetFoodDiet: Another consequence of Data's link is the replicators produce nothing but cat food.

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* ItsEasySoItSucks: InUniverse, Alexander is upset by Worf subduing Eli Hollander easily.


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* NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction: Alexander is upset by how [[CurbStompBattle Worf easily beats Eli Hollander]], prompting him to raise the difficulty level.


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* PetFoodDiet: Another consequence of Data's link is the replicators produce nothing but cat food.
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* OhCrap: When Troi sees the Data-ized Eli Hollander shuffling a card deck rapidly, she realizes that he doesn't just look like Data, he ''is'' practically Data with all his superhuman strengths.

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* OhCrap: When Troi sees the Data-ized Eli Hollander shuffling a card deck rapidly, she realizes that he doesn't the characters don't just look like Data, he ''is'' practically they ''are'' Data with all his superhuman strengths.
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* GenreSavvy: Troi is a big fan of Westerns, and knows well enough that [[ILied Frank Hollander won't keep his word]] to Worf.

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* GenreSavvy: Troi is a big fan of Westerns, and knows well enough that [[ILied [[VillainsNeverLie Frank Hollander won't keep his word]] to Worf.
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* OhCrap: When Troi sees the Data-ized Eli Hollander, she realizes that he doesn't just look like Data, he ''is'' practically Data with all his superhuman strengths.

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* OhCrap: When Troi sees the Data-ized Eli Hollander, Hollander shuffling a card deck rapidly, she realizes that he doesn't just look like Data, he ''is'' practically Data with all his superhuman strengths.
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[floatboxright:Series: Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration\\
Episode: Season 6, Episode 8\\
Title: A Fistful of Datas\\
Previous: Rascals\\
Next: The Quality of Life\\
Recapper: Tropers/{{Premonition45}}]

Worf joins Alexander him for a wild west adventure on the holodeck with Troi. Meanwhile, Data and Geordi experience a malfunction during a test of Data's ability to interface with the ship's main computer.

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* AllPartOfTheShow: When Worf meets the Data-ized Frank Hollander, he initially thinks Data is playing a part like Troi, until almost getting killed by him.
* ClicheStorm: Of westerns.
* FanDisservice: Annie Meyers, the busty barmaid, gets Data-ized as well in the end.
* GenreSavvy: Troi is a big fan of Westerns, and knows well enough that [[ILied Frank Hollander won't keep his word]] to Worf.
* ItsEasySoItSucks: InUniverse, Alexander is upset by Worf subduing Eli Hollander easily.
* HolodeckMalfunction
* MesACrowd: Data's link to the ship's computer inadvertently changes everyone into a Data duplicate.
* OhCrap: When Troi sees the Data-ized Eli Hollander, she realizes that he doesn't just look like Data, he ''is'' practically Data with all his superhuman strengths.
* PrisonerExchange
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: InUniverse, Worf is shocked by the presence of hookers, which Alexander explains is because Lt. Barclay helped him write the program.

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