Seven Words in TNG

giraffe enthusiasts aboard the ship."

"Fascinating," Data

 

thought about this for a little while

 

and then decided to adopt a giraffe

 

. He made the giraffe positronic, the best.

 

"Data," said Geordi, "don't you think it's

 

time that you dropped this positronic crap?"

 

"No, Geordi. I discovered, long ago, that

 

that positronic carp is very dear to

 

Noonien Soong and those of my kind."

 

"Your kind, that means that homicidal brother

 

of yours too?"

"Though Lore is misguided,

 

..." "A lunatic is more like it." interrrupted

 

, he is my brother. By extension, that

 

makes me loyal to him."

Geordi couldn't

 

bring himself to remind Data that Lore

 

tried to kill him and instead said, "

 

It's nice you think of Lore as

 

a brother, but so nice that you

 

may be forgetting his darker deeds."

Data

 

said: "I believe my memory is compromised."