"Robot: “Where are we going?” Human: “The manufacturing factory… where you were built.” Robot: “Excellent.” Robot sharply looks out the window and then turns head back to the person. Robot: “Taking into account such factors as current location, velocity, traffic congestion and stop lights, I estimate we will arrive at the factory in approximately 12.86 minutes. May I ask, what is the purpose of our journey?” The person keeps driving without looking at Robot. Human: “You have to be disassembled.” ..."

"Greetings. My designation is RoboTanner Unit #0001. My human behavior program indicated we should have a conversation. What should we talk about? Greeting RoboTanner Unit #0001. My designation is RoboTanner Unit #0002. Fascinating. Indeed. My calculations indicate a 92.8883 percent probability we should talk about humanoid female genitals. Interesting. My analysis software indicates there is a 68.2580 percent probability your calculations are inaccurate. Fascinating. I am now initiating a level 3 diagnostic program. Indeed logical. Diagnostic complete. There was an error in my probability software. I have now determined that there is a 99.9998 percent probability that we should talk about humanoid female genitals. Excellent. We shall begin. ..."

"Well, I'm guessing there are gay people in the future, but a certain someone hasn't wanted to show them to us for fear of alienating certain people in the midwest and south. That someone is Brannon Braga, whose own ambiguity in terms of his sexual orientation notwithstanding has killed any effort since The Next Generation to create a gay character on the show.

Gene Roddenberry really wanted to make the Next Generation episode "The Outcast" about a female homosexual on a heterosexist planet, but he died and the powers that be gutted the show. In First Contact, Lt. ..."