Favorite Star Trek friendships - Guinan & Jean-Luc Picard

“Do we become friends?”
“Oh - it goes far beyond friendship.”

t-funster:

“Well, when I was nine years old, Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, ‘Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there’s a black lady on television and she ain’t no maid!’ I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be.”

— Whoopi Goldberg

Favorite Star Trek friendships - Ro Laren & Guinan

“You’re not like any bartender I ever met before." 

"And you’re not like any Starfleet officer I’ve ever met before, but that sounds like the beginning of a very interesting friendship." 

startwreck:

_{Favorite Guinan moment}

hugatreeortwo:

… You know, and Asian people and all kind of folks you know, there was no problem with Russians you know, it’s very important that the future be hopeful and that’s what this is.”

Whoopi Goldberg {Sept. 20, 1988} on Star Trek: The Original Series and on why she asked to be in Star Trek: The Next Generation.