Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)
Imaginary Friend (1992)
Whoopi Goldberg: Guinan
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Quotes
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[Guinan and Clara talk about imaginary friends]
Clara Sutter : If the other grown-ups don't understand, how come you do?
Guinan : Well, maybe because when I was your age, I had one.
Clara Sutter : You did?
Guinan : Mmm.
Clara Sutter : What was she like?
Guinan : It... wasn't a she.
Clara Sutter : What was *he* like?
Guinan : It wasn't a he.
Clara Sutter : 'It'?
Guinan : It was a Tarcassian razor beast. It had dark brown fur and gold eyes and huge spiny wings, and it would fly past so fast nobody could see it but me.
Clara Sutter : Sounds scary.
Guinan : Oh, it was. Especially when he smiled.
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Guinan : I knew, as long as that razor beast was around, nothing could hurt me. You know, over the years, his body kind of faded away, but the idea stayed, and I just don't seem to talk to him as often as I used to.
Counselor Deanna Troi : You still talk to it?
Guinan : Oh, yeah. When I'm afraid or... I get confused or a little scared. I just don't think you should have to give up an imaginary friend.
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[Data and Guinan view the cloud formations of a nebula]
Guinan : No, it's a Samarian coral fish with its fin unfolded.
Lt. Commander Data : I believe what you are seeing is the effect of the fluid dynamic processes inherent in the large-scale motion of rarified gas.
Guinan : No. no. First it was a fish, and now it's a Mintonian sailing ship.
Lt. Commander Data : Where?
Guinan : Right there. Don't you see the two swirls coming together to form the mast?
Lt. Commander Data : I do not see it... It is interesting that people try to find meaningful patterns in things that are essentially random. I have noticed that the images they perceive sometimes suggest what they are thinking about at that particular moment.
[he looks out at the nebula again]
Lt. Commander Data : Besides, it is clearly a bunny rabbit.
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Guinan : Well, most grown-ups have a hard time with things they can't see.
