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
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |