5 stars because Gene Roddenberry had the clout to actually get Stephen Hawking.

Hawking's got a mean poker face.

I'm even more impressed that he could actually get Isaac Newton.

Shame about the Einstein actor though.

Einstein's face looks like hot dogs.

So are they holograms or something? Because some game designer from Star Trek time would know as much about Einstein as game designers today would know about the crusades.

Newton would probably have found gambling sinful and would have stood up and screamed about how everyone present was going to burn in Hell before storming out to returning to his alchemy lab. Along the way he would stop to call Consoler Troi a whore.

However, he would have waited until he had a bad hand to do this.

I don't know if this scene is nerdy...though I am filled with the urge to dump this scene's books and then shove it into the girls' restroom.

I remember getting all excited about seeing the real hawking in the show.

I got laid since.

I like how Newton is all pissy.

If this was Futurama they would have all broken free from the holodeck and raged through the ship.

Data was kind of like social cliff-notes for autistics.

Why aren't they playing Texas hold em? Five card stud is for pussies.

Holy shit. Isaac Newton is played by John "Baron Munchausen" Neville.

I really do miss this show.