The Dealer (Croupier)

impatient professional cool reactive attentive authoritative procedural

Unnamed casino table operator (croupier) appearing in Star Trek: The Next Generation, S02E12 “The Royale”. Runs the craps/blackjack layout with professional, procedural precision: passes dice, calls rolls and outcomes, manages chips and payouts, and enforces house rules. Serves as the human face of the casino’s institutional mechanics and reacts with alarm when Data’s intervention breaks the engineered math of the game.

4 appearances

Casino Gaming Operations

Also known as: Croupier, Blackjack Dealer, Casino Dealer, The Dealer, Royale Dealer, Dealer

The Dealer …'s Journey

A timeline through the narrative

4 moments

S2E12 · The Royale

Rigged Twenty-One — Data’s Evidence

Mildly impatient and businesslike; focused on maintaining tempo and the expected flow of the game over individual interactions.

Deals the cards with procedural efficiency, enforces the pace by sliding the deck and admonishing the away team for slowing play, and flips the decisive cards that confirm the scripted …

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S2E12 · The Royale

The Casino's Tempo: Rules Over Agency

Irritated at interruptions but outwardly composed; focused on maintaining the game's flow and the house's interests.

The dealer shuffles and deals professionally, slides the deck toward Data to involve him, and then admonishes the group for delaying play — enforcing the table's tempo with brief, cool …

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S2E12 · The Royale

Mingle to Probe: Data Tests the Casino's Script

Surface-level impatience tied to keeping the game's tempo; internally detached, performing procedural duty without emotional investment.

The Dealer runs the game rhythm: reveals hole cards producing blackjacks, prompts Vanessa for action with increasing impatience, and deals the losing king when Vanessa hits — mechanically enforcing the …

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S2E12 · The Royale

Orchestrated Loss at the Blackjack Table

Curt impatience — focused on keeping the game moving and maintaining the scripted rhythm of play.

The Dealer runs the game with clipped professionalism, revealing hole cards on cue, prodding Vanessa for action as he grows impatient, and mechanically delivering a king that causes the bust. …

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