Guinan is a recurring character who appears in the American science
fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and the films
Star Trek Generations and Star Trek: Nemesis. Portrayed by Whoopi
Goldberg, Guinan is a bartender in the Ten-Forward lounge aboard the
starship USS Enterprise-D. She was also played as a child by Isis
Carmen Jones in the episode "Rascals".The character first appears in
the second-season opening episode "The Child", and makes recurring
appearances during the next four seasons. She mainly works in
Ten-Forward, which was added after most of the sets were recreated
following the first season. The character is an alien who is several
hundred years old and is noted for her folk wisdom, which she often
uses to defuse difficult situations or comfort other characters aboard
the ship as they struggle with something.In January 2020, Goldberg
accepted a personal invitation from Patrick Stewart to reprise her
role as Guinan for the second season of Star Trek: Picard, the
continuation of Star Trek: The Next Generation.Following the departure
of Denise Crosby from the role of Tasha Yar during the first season of
Star Trek: The Next Generation, well-known actress Whoopi Goldberg
believed that there was a vacancy for a female actress on the series.
She had been a lifelong fan of Star Trek, having been inspired to
become an actress by Nichelle Nichols' appearances as Uhura in The
Original Series. Goldberg later recalled that she first saw an episode
of the series when she was nine years old, and after Uhura appeared
on-screen, she went running through her house shouting "Come here,
mom, everybody, come quick, come quick, there's a black lady on
television and she ain't no maid!" Goldberg approached her friend,
actor LeVar Burton, who played Geordi La Forge in The Next Generation,
but the producers of the series ignored her, believing that they were
being pranked until Goldberg telephoned the production office
directly. However, executive producer Rick Berman later recalled that
it was Goldberg's manager who made the call, inviting him and series
creator Gene Roddenberry out to lunch with Goldberg to discuss her
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