Character Star Trek: The Next Generation · 2327

Penny Muroc

Woman courted by the young Picard

A woman at Starbase Earhart in 2327 with whom the young Ensign Picard had arranged a meeting, seen when Q lets Picard relive those days.

Penny is a woman Picard knew just after leaving Starfleet Academy. She appears in the episode Tapestry, played by Rae Norman. Her surname, Muroc, comes from the script.
As a brash new ensign waiting for his first posting, Picard chased several women at once at Starbase Earhart. When Q sends the older Picard back into his younger self, he finds he has to deal with the engagements he made then. Penny is one of the women involved.
Picard, now far more reserved, handles her badly. His words to her at the Bonestell Recreation Facility come out wrong, and she walks off insulted. The meeting is one of several comic reminders that the man he was at twenty-one is hard to recognise, and that changing one's own past is not as simple as it looks.