Seven Words in TNG

sufficed. "This is the 'Picard Manouever'", he

 

told an amazed group of people listening

 

about when he beat Riker at Scrabble.

 

It was one of the most hilarious

 

moments in recent memory to Captain Picard

 

and was the best time that he'd

 

had since he found a packet of

 

mints in the pocket of an old

 

raincoat he hadn't worn for years. Picard

 

was about to order the bridge to

 

set a course to the planet beta-sigma-four

 

"Well, that must have been really embarrassing,"

 

said Troi to Riker,"to find yourself

 

being slapped down by the Captain like

 

that." Riker tried to minimize the incident

 

but was failing miserably. Every time he

 

said something to Troi, she made him

 

eat another bowl of chocolate pudding, insisting

 

that it would do him a world

 

of good. After all, whenever she ate