10 Greatest Unspoken Star Trek Plot Points

Guinan's history remained shrouded in mystery throughout The Next Generation and the movie Star Trek: Generations in which she appeared. We only know a few bits and pieces.

We know that she belongs to a long-living alien species known as the El-Aurians whose home world was destroyed by the Borg in the 23rd century. Guinan and her family were safe from this catastrophe due to being off-world, in fact we see in the episode Time's Arrow that Guinan was actually living on Earth as far back as the 19th century, far before first contact, hiding from her father. We also know that Guinan has some mysterious history with Q who tells Picard that "wherever she goes, trouble always follows." Q even claims that Guinan is not her real name and calls her an "imp."

We can only speculate on Guinan's true history with Q but surprisingly Q almost seems somewhat afraid of her in the episode Q Who. One has to wonder what could make such a supreme being afraid. Hopefully in season two of Picard we'll finally get some answers to these questions as both Guinan and Q are confirmed to return.