Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

The Outrageous Okona (1988)

Whoopi Goldberg: Guinan

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Quotes 

• 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!

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.