Star Trek: The Next Generation

     

Star Trek: The Next Generation1987

Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Marina Sirtis
Rating: TV-PG
Runtime: 44 minutes

Featuring a bigger and better USS Enterprise, this series is set 78 years after the original series -- in the 24th century. Instead of Capt. James Kirk, a less volatile and more mature Capt. Jean-Luc Picard heads the crew of various humans and alien… more »


Lal:
Father - what is the significance of laughter?

Lt. Cmdr. Data:
It is a human physiological response to humor.

Lal:
Then, judging from their laughter, the children at school found my remarks humorous. So without understanding humor, I have somehow mastered it.

Lt. Cmdr. Data:
[... ] Lal.

Lal:
Yes, Father?

Lt. Cmdr. Data:
The children were not laughing with you, they were laughing *at* you.

Lal:
Explain.

Lt. Cmdr. Data:
One is meant kindly, the other is not.

Lal:
Why would they wish to be unkind?

Lt. Cmdr. Data:
Because you are different. Differences sometimes scare people. I have learned that some of them use humor to hide their fear.

Lal:
I do not wish to be different.

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