Character Star Trek: The Next Generation · 1893

Joe Falling Hawk

Poker player in 1893 San Francisco

A Native American card player who sits in on Frederick La Rouque's poker game in San Francisco in 1893 and watches the stranger Data win everything.

Joe Falling Hawk is a man living in San Francisco in the 1890s. He appears in the first part of Time's Arrow, played by Michael Aron.
He is one of the regular players in a hotel poker game run by the gambler Frederick La Rouque. When Data arrives from the 24th century looking for a way to earn money, Falling Hawk is at the table. He is curious about the pale newcomer and his odd manner of speaking.
Data is allowed into the game and wins hand after hand. Falling Hawk loses his money along with the others. The scene is a small one, but it gives Data the funds he needs to live in the city and begin his search for the Devidians.