Seven Words in TNG

hologram and to the real Commander Riker

 

that Data had made to provoke humor

 

just to be able to learn if he

 

was able to make a Riker that

 

would try to distance himself from all

 

the rest of the crew and stopped

 

when Picard came strolling in, announcing,"Take

 

that fake Riker away from my bridge!"

 

Data didn't know what sad was, but

 

he knew how to express it, so

 

he turned his smile upside-down and showed

 

how sad he was that his art

 

was being removed without anyone actually being

 

able to appreciate the fine work he

 

spent getting every detail right, right down

 

to Riker's habit to caress his beard

 

whenever he wanted to convey to people

 

that he was very fond of it

 

. Commander Riker was playing with a large

 

stick. He was looking a it pensively