Star Trek: 10 Biggest Mysteries About Guinan

10. Who Were Her Twenty Three Husbands?

Guinan was present at the wedding of Will Riker and Deanna Troi in 2379. There, she quips to Geordi that she was done with marriage, as twenty-three was the limit for her. Assuming that each of these marriages were binary, in that they were Guinan with one other partner (though who's to say that's how El-Aurian marriages work), then that is a heck of a lot of shopping for new hats.

However, there is nothing said about twenty-three divorces. This introduces the question - how does this arrangement work for El-Aurians? Are they similar to Denobulans, in that they can marry several partners at the same time, who can in turn marry several partners. This would certainly help to keep the cost down.

Perhaps they are time-specific in how the arrangements work. For example, we know that Guinan has at least one son. Though it is never stated exactly how old he is, meaning that any of the twenty-three partners could potentially be the father, could the arrangement not be - one wedding, one child, dissolve and move on?

How do El-Aurian marriage ceremonies work? Why, after all of the years that Guinan appeared to be single on the Enterprise-D, would she elect to remain single forevermore?