Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)
Ensign Ro (1991)
Whoopi Goldberg: Guinan
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Quotes
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Guinan : So you sit alone in crowded rooms staring at your drink.
[pause]
Guinan : I think you enjoy it.
Ensign Ro Laren : I enjoy it?
Guinan : Well, you work so hard at torturing yourself, I can only think you must enjoy it.
Ensign Ro Laren : Who *are* you?
Guinan : I told you. I'm Guinan. I tend bar and I listen.
Ensign Ro Laren : Well, you're not like any bartender I've ever met before.
Guinan : Hm. And you're not like any Starfleet officer I've ever met before. But that sounds like the beginning of a... very interesting friendship.
Ensign Ro Laren : I don't stay anywhere long enough to make friends.
Guinan : Too late. You just did.
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Guinan : I heard you got grounded.
Ensign Ro Laren : I really don't feel like talking right now.
Guinan : Come on, sure you do.
Ensign Ro Laren : Why is it every time I tell you something, you tell me I mean the exact opposite?
Guinan : Because you're one of those people who's got their poles reversed.
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Guinan : Am I disturbing you?
Ensign Ro Laren : Yes.
Guinan : Good. You look like someone who wants to be disturbed.
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Ensign Ro Laren : Who-who are you?
Guinan : My name is Guinan. I tend bar, and I listen.
Ensign Ro Laren : Huh... You heard anything interesting?
Guinan : Everyone's talking about you.
Ensign Ro Laren : Heard anything interesting?
Guinan : M-hm.
Ensign Ro Laren : Well... it's all true.
Guinan : I believe truth is in the eye of the beholder.
Ensign Ro Laren : Isn't that supposed to be... beauty?
Guinan : Truth, beauty - works for a lot of things.
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Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : [about Ensign Ro] She doesn't belong here. She doesn't even belong in the uniform, as far as I'm concerned.
Guinan : Really?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : Really.
Guinan : Sounds like someone I'd like to know.
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Ensign Ro Laren : There's more going on here than anybody on this ship realizes. It's more than I know how to deal with. And I really don't know who to trust anymore.
Guinan : Including yourself?
Ensign Ro Laren : Oh... especially myself.
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Ensign Ro Laren : Seems like everybody's just pulling my strings, you know, like I've got no control.
Guinan : Hm... For people like you and me, who've lost their homes, sometimes that's the way life feels.