Patrick Stewart Invites Whoopi Goldberg to Join STAR TREK: PICARD Season 2
It looks like another familiar face will be joining Star Trek: Picard in its second season! Patrick Stewart recently appeared on The View to promote the premiere of the series. During the interview, Stewart stopped everything and invited Whoopi Goldberg to join Season 2. Here's what Stewart had to say:
"Something that I need to bring up. I'm here with a formal invitation - and it's for you, Whoopi. Alex Kurtzman, who is the senior executive producer of Star Trek: Picard, and all of his colleagues (of which I am one), want to invite you into the second season."
The crowd erupted in applause and Goldberg quickly responded with the answer, “Yes!” You can watch the whole thing play out in the video below.
For those of you who have watched Star Trek: The Next Generation, you know that Goldberg played a character named Guinan in the series, an El-Aurian race of long-living psychically-endowed "Listeners." She was 600 years old TNG and served as the lounge hostess of the U.S.S. Enterprise. As a bartender, she was also a close confidant of Jean-Luc Picard.
It totally makes sense to include the character in the series, and it’ll be interesting to see how they utilize her in the series. Are you happy to learn that Goldberg will return to the Star Trek universe?