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{{quote|''"This is highly improbable."''|'''[[The Spock|Data]]''', ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]''}}
 
Tropes that defy possibility (or [[Probability Tropes|probability]]) in some glaringly [[Fridge Logic|unexplained]] ways that can at least momentarily disrupt [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]] ([[Rule of Funny|if you were even trying]]), but is occasionally also employed in [[Acceptable Breaks From Reality]]. Often [[Played for Laughs]] with some [[Lampshade Hanging]].
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Some entries in this index are also examples of bad writing if played straight. But not all Bad Writing is necessarily unrealistic. Some devices of Bad Writing can derail a story in that they are boring, annoying or frustrating, but that doesn't make them inherently unlikely.
 
The index namer is from an episode of ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'', "Cause and Effect", where Data deals cards at a poker game and everyone at the table correctly predicts which cards they'll receive. In-universe, the characters observed how impossibly unlikely their predictions were turning out. Ultimately, it had [[Applied Phlebotinum|a cause]], but they did not realize that for [[Stable Time Loop|most of the times]] they ended up getting blown up.
 
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