Picard Teases The Real Origin Of Star Trek: TNG's Enterprise Bar
Star Trek: Picard season 2 teases a different explanation behind the name of Enterprise-D's Ten Forward bar. Whereas Star Trek: The Original Series scenes stuck to the bridge, engineering, sickbay, and those endless gray corridors with red handles, Star Trek: The Next Generation added a new key setting for Enterprise-D — a bar area. Devised by Gene Roddenberry for the purpose of mingling crew members in a more informal setting, Ten Forward became the Enterprise-D's communal gathering place. Its name, logic dictates, comes from being located on Deck 10, forward section. We can only be grateful it wasn't situated on Deck 8, rear section.
In Star Trek: Picard season 2's premiere, Patrick Stewart's Jean-Luc visits Whoopi Goldberg's Guinan at her Los Angeles bar. Located in Forward Avenue Historic District, the establishment has a number 10 over the door, and viewers are left to assume this is Guinan's poignant tribute to her time on the Enterprise. That's certainly how Picard interprets the coincidence as he chuckles to himself wryly upon spotting the number. But while Guinan's stint on the Enterprise-D's Ten Forward looks to have influenced her bar on Earth, the opposite may be closer to the truth...
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Hunting for The Watcher in 2024, Star Trek: Picard season 2 takes Jean-Luc to the very same drinking hole he visited in 2401… and he's delighted to find a young Guinan running the place. Centuries before Goldberg's character began tending the Ten Forward lounge in Star Trek: The Next Generation, therefore, she owned a bar on 10 Forward Avenue, Los Angeles. Picard, realizing the coincidence, places head in hands, motioning as if his mind has just
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