Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Galaxy's Child (1991)

Whoopi Goldberg: Guinan

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• Guinan : You saw exactly what you wanted to see on the holodeck. Sure, the computer made it look like her, gave it personality, but when it came to the relationship, La Forge, you... filled in the blanks. And you had a perfectly wonderful, marvelous little fantasy until the real Leah showed up and ruined it. Now, she's probably done the most horrific thing one person can do to another - not live up to your expectations - so I'd take a good, long, hard look at her, La Forge. See her for who she is, not for what you want her to be.

• Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : How could it have been so far off? It was based on every piece of information on record about Leah Brahms. Okay, with an admitted margin for error, but this is an error that's about a light year wide.

  Guinan : Not what you hoped for, huh?

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : Hoped? Guinan, the woman is about as friendly as a Circassian plague cat. Only cares about her work, hates what I've done to *her* engines; and - to top it all off - she's married.

• Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : You remember about a year ago when we were caught in that booby trap the Menthars set?

  Guinan : Mm-hmm.

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : Okay, while we were trying to get out of it, I went down to the holodeck to study an engine prototype that was made when the Enterprise was first designed. And the computer, well, it gave me an image of the engine, but it also created this hologram of the designer, Dr. Leah Brahms.

  Guinan : So you met a computer-simulated female.

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : Yeah, but not an ordinary computer-simulated female. I mean, she was brilliant, of course, but warm, you know, friendly. It was like we worked as one. I would start a sentence, she'd finish it. What I didn't think of, she did. It was just so comfortable. Okay, I know it was just a holographic image, but the computer was able to incorporated personality traits from her Starfleet record.

• Guinan : Maybe it was your old visor.

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : What are you talking about?

  Guinan : Well, the one you wore on the holodeck when you were with her.

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : Guinan, it's the same visor.

  Guinan : Really? Oh, I figured it was probably the one that lets you see what you want to see.