Guinan is beloved as the Enterprise's bartender on Star Trek: The Next Generation, but Whoopi Goldberg originally had her eye on Worf's job.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT When Whoopi Goldberg wanted to join Star Trek: The Next Generation, she was originally interested in Lieutenant Worf's job as Chief of Security, says executive producer Rick Berman. TNG began with Denise Crosby's Lt. Tasha Yar as the Chief of Security of the USS Enterprise-D. Crosby was unhappy on TNG and left the series before season 1 ended.
In the oral history "The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek" by Peter Holmstrom, Star Trek: The Next Generation's executive producer Rick Berman describes a letter sent by Whoopi Goldberg asking to join TNG as the new Chief of Security, and how he and Star Trek's creator, Gene Roddenberry, decided to create the role of Guinan the bartender for the Academy Award-nominee.
When Denise Crosby decided to leave the show, we got a call from Whoopi Goldberg saying that she wanted to be considered to take Denise’s role of head of security. But Whoopi wasn’t really the head of security type for us. Gene and I sat down and discussed it. “What a great idea to have a bartender?” To build a bar where people could socialize, and who better than Whoopi to play a bartender, who had some kind of strange, never quite explained, past relationship with Picard.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine created Quark's Bar as its version of Ten Forward, and the newer Star Trek series have made sure their starships have bars. From the bar on the USS Cerritos in Star Trek: Lower Decks to the bar on the USS Discovery in Star Trek: Discovery, it's now commonplace to have a drinking establishment on a starship where everybody knows your name. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds retconned the USS Enterprise by creating a bar called the Port Galley.
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