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Do these parts in "Best of Both Worlds" make you laugh?

I cringe when Picard and Guinan are talking about the Battle of Trafalgar. Guinan says that Nelson never returned. The writers want me to believe that an alien like Guinan is going to know the history of some obscure battle (to an alien) that happened 600 years earlier?

Actually she was likely to know. She was on Earth in history... Times Arrow parts one and two. Remember, her species had been mostly assimilated by the Borg and those that survived travelled and settled on other planets. Earth would have been a good place to be, because El-Aurians look the same as humans and she would have had little problems blending in with the native population.
 
The part that really is awfully written is the poker scene.

After the final card is out (it was 5 card stud), Wesley has 3 jacks or queens showing on the board (I can't remember which one), he bets, Shelby calls (she later said she only had two pair). It makes absolutely no sense to call in that position because she is definitely beaten by Wesley, who has 3 of a kind on the board, yet she calls anyway. Riker raises with a possible straight, and then Wesley folds,thinking he was beaten. Shelby then says, I only have 2 pair but I have to see that last card. Riker was bluffing and Shelby won the pot. Wesley sinks in his seat because he got outwitted by Riker.
The writers seem to think that being a good poker player simply is bluffing to win a pot.
We are supposed to believe that Shelby had nerves of steel to call down Riker and his bluff and win the chips that really have zero value in real life.
And just forget the fact that Shelby made a terrible play that anyone who had ever played poker before would not have done.
It was awful writing and they made Shelby, at least in my eyes, look like a complete buffoon.
 
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