Episode 5.14

His heart is pounding. His body is still. He shuffles his chips as he thinks. Heart versus head. Emotion versus reason. He makes his move. He makes his own luck.

It has become a tradition in Starfleet that senior bridge officers unwind late into the evening by playing cards although, in a non-monetary society, an atmosphere of civilised irony prevails.

Having no bridge officers, Alan too often finds himself, late at night in the loneliness of space, frequenting sleazy online gambling sites.