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

The enigmatic bartender is still a great mystery in Star Trek, but what we learned along the way?

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[rudylikestowatch]

Clips at the end showing Nurse Alyssa Ogawa reminded me that Patti Yasutake died this month. A nice, subtle tribute.

[Aezetyr]

I loved the tribute to Patti Yasutake at the end, very nicely done.

[jarrodnewman]

Great tribute to Patti Yasutake (R.I.P. 1953-2024) there at the end!

[grahamcann]

I appreciated the end clips of Patti Yasutake (Nurse Alyssa Ogawa), who recently passed. (06SEP53 - 05AUG24)
As always, thank you all so very much for the videos.

[merickful]

Great character and some of the best episodes with her and Picard.

[vic]

Nice reference to Professor River Song!

[hancocki]

Guinan meeting Scotty would have further complicated what he remembers from kirks death given her knowledge of the nexus

[BMichaelNeal]

I was hoping for more on Guinan's and Picard's relationship. The grin on Guinan's face when discussing the relationship with Riker is leading.

[jacara]

Beta-canon has her species, the Q and the Prophets in a 3-way cold war in the past. The Q monitor Space, The El-Aurian Time and the Prophets the balance between them.
El-Aurians always seemed a lot like Dr Who when it came to the perception of time, far greater than the Q, but they have no power over space like the Q do.
Also explains how Sisko hurt Q when he punched him (Q checked for blood) because Sisko is part Prophet and its possible his hit actually hurt Q on some plain of existence Sisko doesn't know about. Q never went back to DS9, perhaps warned to stay away by the Prophets.

[robstein]

ten forward: i think its serendipity and a quirk. shes both aware of the flow of time and being semi-intuitive, she is "nudged" into these quirky syncretic moments a lot more often than most characters.
its a bit like someone who always names their pet dog Fluffy, or how some people always pick a certain seat on the train.
i think also its like when a psychic tells you "i see your future husband... look for a man riding a horse" and you keep looking for a man riding a literal horse but you never see one, and then one-day you meet a guy who drives a mustang or at the fair you meet a guy on a carousel.

[joshcoulson]

you missed the part where whoopi begged to be on the show to the point she said the would be a background character sweeping floors if thats all she could get

[ViroVV]

Me tinks we are due for a Alyssa Ogawa ep

[vic]

Where's the video on Ogawa? Come on now!

[Armandth]

Zero things I didn't know... But she's still an absolute legend.

[JubeiKibagamiFez]

10:12 Well, here's the problem with this. If Guinan got her extra senses from her time in and forceful departure from The Nexus, that would only make Guinan special, rather than the entire El-Aurian race. El-Aurians as a whole are suppose to have super-perception. This Guinan theory negates all the lore previously established about El-Aurians.

[IndyV]

The character Guinan was the last character that Gene Roddenberry created before he passed.

[sureshmukhi]

Missed opportunity for not having Guinan in the episode "Cause and Effect". She would have known that the Enterprise was repeating time again and again and would help in finding a resolution.

[MotherShipMedia]

Re 10-Forward. You don't seem to consider the fact that Guinan's race has the ability to sense extra-temporally and extra-dimensionally. My head canon, which I thinks works perfectly well for her species, is that she was aimlessly wandering around LA and for whatever reason, randomly stumbled onto Forward Ave and saw "10 Forward". Her "spidey sense" as it were went into overdrive as her extra-temporal senses recognized that "10 Forward" was hugely important to her life.

At the time, she wouldn't have known how (see the dialog in Yesterday's Enterprise where she KNOWS Tasha shouldn't be there, because she knows she was never supposed to meet Tasha) or why 10 Forward was important, but once she saw the address, she knew it was "the place she had to be" even if she didn't know why. So she bought it and ran a bar out of it, cause that's what she does.

It makes total sense to me ... her ownership of 10 Forward Ave in LA was a "Flash forward" in the same way we humans get flashbacks. Or more like "deja vu" in reverse, where she knows she's never been here, but also somehow KNOWS she WILL be "here" someday.

Maybe that's not what the writer had in mind, but if I'd written that scene, it's what I'd have had in mind ...

[pseudotasuki]

Seeing itty-bitty Guinan and Ro will never not make me giggle.

[corywilliams]

Would love to see a "10 Things" episode about Nurse Alyssa Ogawa.