Star Trek: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Guinan

10. A Question Of Q

One of the early mysteries that surrounded Guinan was her relationship with a certain trickster. Q, Who introduced the fact that these two characters knew each other, though at that time exactly how was unknown. There was, however, enough animosity to give even a being as powerful as Q room for pause.

This was further explored in the second season of Star Trek: Picard. It turned out that far from Guinan and Q being personal enemies, the entire Q Continuum and the El-Aurian race had engaged in a 'cold war' for many years. This war was brought to a close, as many often are, over a bottle.

In this case, that bottle was quite literal. The El-Aurian people saw 'unity through food and drink,' and therefore had evolved to capture a moment of time within a bottle. This bottle could then be used to summon those directly affected by it - as was demonstrated to varying levels of success in Monsters and Mercy.