Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)
The Outrageous Okona (1988)
Whoopi Goldberg: Guinan
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Quotes
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Guinan : Look, it's just you and I here. We're talking, we're having an intimate conversation. Why? Because you're a 'droid and I'm a 'noid.
Lt. Cmdr. Data : But why?
Guinan : Because that's what I am.
Lt. Cmdr. Data : Have I said something to offend you?
Guinan : No.
Lt. Cmdr. Data : Then why are you annoyed?
Guinan : [slowly] Because you're a *'droid* and I'm a *'noid*.
Lt. Cmdr. Data : Humanoid.
Guinan : Yes.
Lt. Cmdr. Data : You told a joke.
Guinan : Yes!
Lt. Cmdr. Data : I am not laughing.
Guinan : Yes!
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Guinan : [explaining to Data why his joke was not funny] Data... you spoiled the joke. But it could have been your timing.
Lt. Cmdr. Data : My timing is digital.
[Guinan laughs softly]
Lt. Cmdr. Data : What?
Guinan : That's funny.
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The Comic : Tell me, Data, what happened?
Lt. Cmdr. Data : I told a joke.
The Comic : And?
Lt. Cmdr. Data : No one laughed.
The Comic : No one? Nobody in the whole room?
Guinan : I was the whole room.
Lt. Cmdr. Data : She said I spoiled the joke.
Guinan : Actually, 'killed' would have been a better word.
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Guinan : Being able to make people laugh or being able to laugh is not the end-all and be-all of being human.
Lt. Cmdr. Data : No. But there is nothing more... uniquely human.