page_title: List of Star Trek: The Next Generation characters
section_title: Guinan
hierarchical_section_title: List of Star Trek: The Next Generation characters / Guinan
caption_attribution_description: English: Whoopi Goldberg at the Cannes film festival.
context_page_description: This is a list of characters from the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. Characters are ordered alphabetically by family name, and only characters who played a significant recurring role in the series are listed.
  Due to the nature of how Star Trek characters are often used elsewhere in the franchise, and high number of reoccurrences of non-regular cast members, the exact categorization can be ambiguous.
context_section_description: Guinan, played by Whoopi Goldberg, is a recurring character on Star Trek: The Next Generation. She also appears in the TNG films Star Trek Generations and Star Trek: Nemesis but is uncredited in both.
  The character first appears in the second-season opening episode "The Child", and she appears numerous times over the course of the next five seasons; she does not appear at all in the seventh season. She is said to have the closest relationship with Jean-Luc Picard, which is "beyond friendship" and "beyond family", though the exact nature of that relationship is never revealed.
caption: Whoopi Goldberg portrays Guinan
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