bluffing theme

A character insinuates they will do something that they in fact cannot or will not do, thereby deceiving someone else.

10 total · 3 major · 7 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
talesoftheunexpected4x06 major Gerry bluffed the assassin good.
tng2x20 major Worf bluffed at poker in the beginning, and bluffed Klingons by dressing up as a Klingon officer, at the end.
tos1x02 major Kirk bluffed Balok by claiming he had an immensely destructive device known as "the corbomite device". He also discovered that he had been somewhat bluffed by Balok, who had transmitted a far more threatening image of himself than the jejune shape he actually possessed.
ahp2x09 minor Sam considered that Mason might be bluffing that he had four queens as they played out a crucial hand at the poker table.
ds97x02 minor Kira bluffed Kimara Cretak about keeping the blockade up in face of the attacking force.
movie: Solo (1996) minor After studying human ways, the android supersoldier made explicit use of a bluff to defeat the even more powerful supersoldier android Improved Solo.
tng3x08 minor Riker :: Riker tries to bluff Ral
tng6x24 minor Rikers at the poker table
voy6x04 minor The Doctor feigned to possess a powerful weapon known as "the photonic canon", and thus saved the day.
voy6x16 minor Neelix in poker