‘Star Trek: Picard’: Whoopi Goldberg’s Casting Revealed In Season 2 Trailer
deadline.comThe fans asked for it and Whoopi Goldberg has obliged.Goldberg is returning to the Star Trek universe in season 2 of Paramount+’s Picard, reprising the role of Guinan in multiple episodes.
She played the El-Aurian bar hostess on Star Trek: The Next Generation from 1988 to 1993.“I’m going to need some tea: Earl Grey, piping hot,” she says to an emotional Picard (Patrick Stewart) in the first trailer for the season premiering on March 3 above.Stewart invited Goldberg to join him in the new series while visiting her ABC talk show The View in Jan.
2020 while promoting the Season 1 premiere.“I’m here with a formal invitation,” said Stewart, “and it’s for you, Whoopi. Alex Kurtzman, who is the senior executive producer of Star Trek: Picard, and all his colleagues, of which I am one, want to invite you into the second season.”Without a second thought, Goldberg said yes.“I’ve said this on the show before, but Star Trek was one of the great experiences, from the beginning to the end,” she told Stewart on The View. “I had the best, best, best time.
Best time ever.”The streamer teases Season 2 will take the legendary Jean-Luc Picard and his crew on a bold and exciting new journey: into the past.
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