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“Did humans really talk like that?”: A Piece of the Action (TOS) vs. The Royale (TNG)

Away teams from two Enterprises encounter echoes of Earth’s past on far-off planets … and also cheat at craps (and fizzbin).

“It is you who are not real, sir”: The Big Goodbye (TNG) vs. Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang (DS9)

An early episode of The Next Generation starts a Trek tradition of holodeck malfunctions, while a late-series episode of Deep Space 9 lets the crew use the holodeck exactly as its designers probably intended: to pull holographic casino heists.