Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)
Live Fast and Prosper (2000)
Ethan Phillips: Neelix
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[Neelix and Paris have set up a shell game to fool the Doctor]
The Doctor : This looks like an interesting game. May I have a turn?
Tom Paris : Well, be my guest, but, um... you'll have to wager something.
The Doctor : [to Neelix] If I win, you take three duty shifts in sickbay.
Neelix : And if I win, you take three shifts in the kitchen.
The Doctor : Done.
Neelix : Ready?
[he resets the game and begins shuffling the cups]
Neelix : Now, watch carefully. Round and round they go. Follow the tera nut if you can, but be careful, the hand is faster than the eye.
Tom Paris : Careful, Doc, try not to blink.
The Doctor : Don't you worry, Mr. Paris. You have to get up pretty early in the morning to fool my optical subroutines.
[Neelix finishes shuffling]
Neelix : Where is it, then?
The Doctor : In your left palm.
[and to the other gamblers' great bafflement, he turns Neelix's left hand around, which indeed contains the nut]
Tom Paris : How did you...?
The Doctor : Superior visual acuity. See you in sickbay.
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[last lines]
Neelix : [shuffling the cups] Round and round they go. Follow the tera nut if you can, but remember, the hand is sharper than your visual acuity.
The Doctor : I thought we'd already disproved that theory.
Neelix : You tell me.
The Doctor : [sighs] The tera nut is firmly entrenched up your right sleeve.
[Paris laughs triumphantly, and Neelix shows the Doctor his empty sleeve]
Neelix : [sneering] Sorry.
[the Doctor inspects it, then turns up all the cups, yet doesn't find the nut]
The Doctor : [baffled] That's impossible.
Tom Paris : The old handoff.
[and from behind The Doctor's ear, he conjures - the nut]
Neelix : Ooo.
The Doctor : That's cheating!
[leaves angrily]
Neelix : [to Paris] We've still got it.