LeVar Burton credited as playing...
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: Geordi, I believe I have experienced my first emotion.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: No offense, Data, but how would you know a flash of anger from some odd kind of power surge?
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: You are correct in that I have no frame of reference to confirm my hypothesis. In fact, I am unable to provide a verbal description of the experience. Perhaps you could describe how it feels to be angry. I could then use that as a reference.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yeah, okay. Well, when I feel angry, first I uh, first I feel... hostile.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: Could you describe feeling hostile?
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Well yeah, it's like feeling... beligerent, combative.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: Could you describe feeling angry without referring to other feelings?
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: No, I... I guess I can't. I just... feel angry.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: That was my experience as well. I simply... felt angry.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: Perhaps I have evolved to the point where emotions are within my grasp. Perhaps I will experience other emotions as time goes by.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Well, I hope you're right. I'd hate to think that anger is all you're capable of feeling.