What poker variant does Picard call in the final scene of 'All Good Things...'?

Picard calls five-card stud in the final scene of “All Good Things…,” saying, “Five-card stud, nothing wild.” The line is the last spoken dialogue of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

The scene takes place after Picard resolves the temporal mystery involving Q and the apparent destruction of humanity’s future. He joins the senior crew’s regular poker game in the present-day Enterprise-D briefing room, telling them that he played poker in his youth. The moment marks a small but meaningful change: Picard finally accepts the invitation to become part of the crew’s informal social life.

Five-card stud is different from five-card draw and seven-card stud. In stud poker, cards are dealt face up and face down, and players do not traditionally discard and replace cards as they do in draw poker. “Nothing wild” means no card has been designated as a wild card.

The two-hour finale originally aired on May 23, 1994. Its closing image pulls back from the card table as Picard deals, ending the series on friendship, possibility, and the suggestion that the crew’s adventures continue.