10 Oldest Characters In Star Trek Universe

10. Guinan

Whoopi Goldberg’s Guinan first appeared in the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, yet this was far from her first encounter with Captain Jean-Luc Picard. For several seasons, their relationship was teased as something that transcended love and family, though no one really knew why. In Time’s Arrow part two, it was shown that Guinan was on Earth in the late 19th century, where she ran into a time-travelling Picard.

Guinan is El-Aurian, a race that is incredibly long-lived. Their planet was destroyed by the Borg sometime in the 23rd Century, though she and several hundred refugees, including Dr Tolian Soran, escaped on the SS Lukal and the SS Robert Fox. These ships would become trapped by the Nexus, requiring rescue from the Enterprise-B.

No one truly knows how old Guinan is, though she has revealed that she is old enough to have been married twenty-two times in her life. The version of Guinan who associated with Samuel Clemens seemed to think her father was chasing her across the galaxy, which was suggestive of a younger, more wilful person. Perhaps this was the character during her adolescence? Perhaps the audience will find out for sure in Star Trek Picard Season Two.