Goldberg's personal connection to the original Star Trek, particularly the presence of a Black woman in the cast, is what motivated her to join The Next Generation. Stewart and Goldberg have since become close friends, bonding over their shared experience in the Star Trek universe.
And we've become close friends ever since.” As a recurring character who gave guidance to Stewart's Captain Jean Luc-Picard and his USS Enterprise crew, Goldberg went on to make several guest star appearances as Guinan on TNG until the series finale in 1994.
Q seemed frightened of Guinan, telling Picard that she is "not what she appears to be," and that Picard should remove her from the Enterprise. Considering Q's abilities, it's unclear why he would be afraid of Guinan, and Star Trek has never offered a real explanation for Q's reaction.
What is the relationship between Picard and Guinan?
In "Rascals", Guinan's younger self is played by Isis Carmen Jones, who also played Goldberg's character as a child in the film Sister Act (1992). Guinan works in Ten-Forward and is one of Picard's friends, and they often chat about problems the ship is having.
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Who did Picard love?
While Dr. Crusher and Vash are two of the Enterprise captain's greatest lost loves, there is another woman from his past who is often forgotten. In 2342, Jenice Manheim (Michelle Phillips) and Jean-Luc Picard were briefly in a romantic relationship before he shipped out, possibly on the USS Reliant.
Guinan is an El-Aurian, a race of empathic and telepathic beings who are extremely long-lived; Guinan's exact age is never mentioned, but she is well over 500 years old by the time of her appearance in Star Trek: Picard season 2.
Q. The Q are potentially the least likely to get assimilated, for not just one reason but two. Firstly, their near omnipotence and god-like powers would make it almost impossible for a Borg, or even all Borg working together, to capture a Q.
We do know Guinan's has some sort of temporal sense, she can tell when timelines have been changed. (it's unknown if this is because of her Nexus experience or if its just part of her races), He's not readying a snap but bringing his hand up in a similar claw as to her.
The El-Aurian suffered much, but long lives allowed them to bounce back more easily than most. Guinan is an unexpected icon of the Star Trek franchise. Her species offers many unique and interesting elements to the universe. Writers could find many fascinating stories in the lives of El-Aurians.
Though they were only together for less than two years in the early '90s, Ted Danson's relationship with Whoopi Goldberg cost him millions in a divorce settlement, and their eventual breakup ruined any chance of a friendship with his Made in America costar.
Goldberg has been married three times, most recently to Lyle Trachtenberg, whom she divorced in 1995. She has also had relationships with actors Frank Langella, Timothy Dalton and Ted Danson.
At the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C., Whoopi Goldberg paid tribute to the late comedian as she honored their friend and colleague Billy Crystal, causing both of them to fight back tears.
“So they flew in, I meet Patrick, and out of the blue, we're old friends," Goldberg recalls. Shortly after, Swayze made his pitch for Ghost, in which Oda Mae Brown, ultimately played by Goldberg, helps Swayze's Sam Wheat communicate with his girlfriend (Demi Moore) from the great beyond.
We've received your submission. Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal held back tears as they remembered their late friend, Robin Williams, at the Kennedy Center Honors.
Memorable affair: Sister Act lead fell for married co-star Ted Danson in 1993, but their romance ended with a very expensive divorce. In between her second and third marriages, Whoopi had a high-profile affair with Cheers actor Ted Danson, who was married to Cassandra Coates at the time.
As a trickster god, Q relies on people feeling powerless against his godlike status as he toys with their lives. With Guinan referring to him as merely a “denizen” it's clear that she doesn't buy into his elevated status. That could very well be the thing that frightens him most of all.
Part of her close bond with Picard was revealed in the two-part TNG episode "Time's Arrow," where Guinan encountered the time traveling crew of the Enterprise-D in 1893 San Francisco. A wounded Guinan was tended to by a concerned Picard, creating a causal loop that would help establish their deep bond.
Their outward appearance is much like that of humans, but they age much more slowly. The lifespan of an El-Aurian covers many centuries, with some recorded as living past 700 human years.
Species 8472: Also known as the Undine, they were a highly advanced and biologically unique species from fluidic space. Due to their vastly different biology, the Borg were unable to assimilate or adapt to them.
At that time, writer and de facto showrunner Maurice Hurley intended for the Borg to be introduced much earlier, and possibly as an insect race. Hurley was also the writer of "Q Who?" and the person who, basically, created the Borg.
The Borg, while still a powerful threat, are nothing compared to this type of power. The Q are not only able to defeat their entire race without breaking a sweat, but can also eradicate any trace of their existence altogether.
The origin of the Borg is never made clear, though they are portrayed as having existed for hundreds of thousands of years (as attested by Guinan and the Borg Queen).
The Borg queen was a member of Species 125. Note: This is NOT a PC and NPC rated species. Species 125 is the Borg designation for a species as yet unknown to the Federation outside of the Collective. However, it is likely that this species has been completely assimilated.
Guinan is indicated as having vague powers that include sensing alternate time lines (Yesterday's Enterprise), leaving some sort of psychic echo in the Nexus (Generations), and living a very long time (Time's Arrow).
