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It looks like Omar Epps has to brush up on his Star Trek knowledge. While appearing on this morning’s episode of The View, the actor was left confused after he was informed that Whoopi Goldberg was one of the first Black people in space.
Epps stopped by the hit daytime talk show to promote his new book Nubia: The Reckoning — the second installment in his young adult dystopian science fiction series — when Goldberg’s acting past was brought up.
“What was specifically for me intentional is [the book] follows children of refugees from a fallen African utopia called Nubia,” Sunny Hostin pointed out. “So you hear colloquially, ‘My Nubian King,’ or, ‘My Nubian Queen.’ So that was special. It was one of the earliest advanced civilizations in ancient Africa.”
The co-host then asked if Epps has always wanted to explore the African experience and culture in science fiction — especially since there aren’t very many books in the genre that do so.
“For me, I am a creative so I didn’t know about genres and like, ‘This is young adult, afro-futuristic sci-fi.’ I was just like, ‘I think this is a cool idea and I want to unearth it,'” he said, while Hostin chimed in, “Whoopi was the first Black person in space, I think.”
However, Goldberg corrected that she was actually the “second” after actress Nichelle Nichols, who starred in the original Star Trek films from the 1970s.
“Seriously though?” a stunned and slightly confused Epps asked, to which Hostin replied, “Yeah, seriously. At least on television.”
While it took the House star a moment to catch onto the fact that Goldberg had never actually been to outer space, the rest of the panel immediately knew Hostin was talking about the EGOT’s role as Guinan on Star Trek: The Next Generation, which she starred on from 1988 to 1993. Goldberg later reprised the role in Star Trek: Picard in 2022 as well as the feature films Star Trek Generations (1994) and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002).
Someone direct Epps to the nearest streaming service with Star Trek ASAP!
The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.
