Stewart, it appeared, did not know the above story but, nor that Goldberg was a fan of “Star Trek” and an admirer of Nichelle Nichols. Stewart, ever the careerist, was solely involved with Goldberg’s present stage of fame and the appearing initiatives that fame afforded her. It hadn’t fairly occurred to the actor that Goldberg was there as a result of she passionately wished to be. Be aware that this was the late Eighties, and tv was nonetheless considered by many within the trade as a “lesser” medium than movie. A film star stayed within the motion pictures, and a TV star stayed down under on the decrease tier. For a giant film star to seem on tv was thought of “slumming.” Stewart was nonetheless, like everybody else on the time, of that mindset. Therefore his befuddlement.
Stewart immediately requested Goldberg why she can be doing TV, and instructed the next story about her response:
“In the future, they had been lighting a scene or altering surroundings, and he or she was sitting alone. […] So I sat beside her and stated, ‘Whoopi, I do not perceive why you agreed to do that.’ And she or he instructed me the story of when she was a toddler, what the unique ‘Star Trek’ had meant to her […] And she or he stated, ‘There was additionally a Black girl within the solid. And it made me suppose, Certainly one of us will need to have made it.’ It was her presence not simply within the function however within the future — ‘One of us goes to make it.’ I liked that. And we have turn out to be shut associates ever since.”
Guinan appeared on 29 episodes of “Star Trek: The Subsequent Era,” and was a useful presence. She returned for episodes of “Star Trek: Picard” as effectively.
