Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Imaginary Friend (1992)

Brent Spiner: Lieutenant Commander Data

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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.