Whoopi Goldberg credited as playing...
Guinan
- 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.
- 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.
- Guinan: Am I disturbing you?
- Ensign Ro Laren: Yes.
- Guinan: Good. You look like someone who wants to be disturbed.
- Ensign Ro Laren: I'd rather be alone.
- Guinan: Oh, no, you wouldn't.
- Ensign Ro Laren: I beg your pardon.
- Guinan: If you wanted to be alone you would have stayed in your quarters. The only reason to come here is to be amongst people.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
