Star Trek: Discovery is all well and good but I want Guinan, the series. It would be little 15 minute mini-episodes, one for every episode of Discovery, starring Whoopi Goldberg and featuring alllllll the Star Trek actors. It could span the entire timeline. All the way back to our present (The Bell Riots anyone?) and further (remember when Guinan was hanging with Mark Twain?) — and then into the future (who doesn’t want to meet The Next Generation‘s Next Generation?!?!) and back again. No need for big budget special effects cuz this would be character and relationship and dialogue driven. It would be epic and needs to happen. But in the meantime, try these:
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994)
Specifically, the Guinan Episodes and specifically specifically the three best Guinan episodes: “The Measure of a Man”, “Ensign Ro”, and “Rascals”. And if you’re feeling saucy, “Déjà Q” because:
Buy: Star Trek: The Next Generation – The Complete Series [Blu-ray]
Ghost (1990)
I cannot be the only one who considers this film a post-Mark Twain, pre-Jean-Luc Picard Guinan AU where she’s been on Earth so long she’s ‘gone native’?
Buy: Ghost [Blu-ray]
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993)
Nothing against the original but this sequel is where it’s AT. And Whoopi’s Sister Mary Clarence is at her most Guinan-like here as evidenced in this scene in which Lauryn Hill basically plays Ensign Ro:
Buy: Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit
The Indiana Jones Series (1981-2008)
Hear me out. Marion Ravenwood is a bartender. Jean-Luc Picard is an amateur archaeologist. The Indy series is about adventure, history, family, and the realization that people matter more than treasure. Plus Indy 4, which I know isn’t the movie everybody wanted it to be but I personally really enjoy, has aliens.
That’s what I want my imaginary GUINAN series to be about: catching back up with all our favorites like The Rikers and Captain Worf, visiting different time periods (can you imagine Guinan at a Black Lives Matter march?!), and providing little pearls of wisdom. Guinan’s tagline says it all:
