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able to respond to questions, although the sophistication of its vivors. (*Q Who?" [TNG]). Guinan spent some time on Earth prior programming was so great that it was difficult for humans to to that planet's development of space travel. She lived in the understand it. The Guardian was discovered in 2267 by Enterprise ~~ Earth city of San Francisco in the year 1893, where she met personnel who were investigating time-distortion waves in the writer Samuel Clemens, as well as future shipmates Data, vicinity. Dr. McCoy, suffering from an accidental overdose of cor- Picard, etc., who had traveled back in time. (“Time's Arrow, Parts drazine when the ship was hit by a time wave, fled into Earth's | and II" [TNG]). Guinan was probably born sometime in the 19th past through the Guardian. While in the past, McCoy effected a century, making her about 500 years old when she served on the change in the flow of history, creating a new future in which the Enterprise-D. Her father was about 200 years old at the time of Starship Enterprise did not exist. Kirk and Spock followed McCoy ~~ Guinan'’s birth. (“Rascals” [TNG]). She also had an uncle named to Earth's 1930s, where they learned that McCoy had prevented Terkim. (“Hollow Pursuits” [TNG]). Guinan and Q were acquainthe death of American social worker Edith Keeler. In this altered tances, having met each other some two centuries ago, but neihistory, Keeler prevented the entry of the United States into World ther has been particularly enlightening about the encounter, save War Il long enough for Nazi Germany to develop weapons that for the fact that neither liked the other. (“Q Who?" [TNG]). She has allowed Hitler to dominate the world. Kirk and Spock were ableto been married several times, and has had many children. She said prevent McCoy from saving Keeler, and upon her death, time that all of them turned out all right, except for one who wouldn't resumed its original course, The origin and purpose of the listen. (“Evolution” [TNG]). Guinan possessed an unusual sense Guardian remains a total mystery, but the Guardian described that extended beyond normal linear space-time. She, alone, was itself as its own beginning and its own end. (“The City on the intuitively aware of the damage to the “normal” flow of time Edge of Forever” [TOS]) caused when the Enterprise-C was swept some 22 years into its future, creating an alternate timeline. Guinan warned Picard that Guardians. In Trill society, a select group of humanoids who history had been altered, persuading him to return the Enterprisedevoted their lives to the care of the symbionts. The Guardians, C back to 2344 to restore the flow of time. Such was Picard's faith who were not themselves joined, conducted their work in the in Guinan that he accepted this extraordinary recommendation. caves of Mak’ala. The monastic Guardians had very little con- (“Yesterday's Enterprise” [TNG]). Much remains unknown about tact with those outside their group. (“Equilibrium” [DS9]). SEE: Guinan, largely because Star Trek's producers have chosen to Timor. In addition to tending to the symbionts, Guardians also keep her background something of a mystery. Guinan, played by oversee the Trill zhian'tara ritual. (“Facets” [DS9)). Whoopi Goldberg, joined the Star Trek: The Next Generation cast at the beginning of the second season after calling Gene Guernica system. Star system. Location of a Federation outpost Roddenberry and telling him that she'd like to be part of the that the Enterprise-D visited in 2367. (“Galaxy's Child” [TNG]). Enterprise crew. Guinan was named after famed bartender Texas Guinan, who ran a saloon during the Prohibition. Young Guinan in guidance and navigation relay. Component of a spacecraft's “Rascals” was played by Isis J. Jones. Guinan's first appearance flight control system, used to manage the flow of navigational was in “The Child” [TNG]) sensor data. (“The Jem’Hadar"[DS9)). The G and N relay of the Rio Grande, removed by Jake in “The Jem'Hadar,” was actually gul. Title given to Cardassian officers approximately equivalent the “head” of a small mode! of the Nomad space probe provided to a Starfleet captain, (“The Wounded” [TNG]). SEE: glin. by Star Trek: Deep Space Nine scenic artist (and space hero) Doug Drexler! gumbo. A thick soup or stew containing okra pods. Gumbo was a specialty at Sisko's, a restaurant in New Orleans on Earth, Guild of Restaurant and Casino ("Homefront" [DS9]) Employees. Labor union of workers "N PY at Quark's bar on station Deep Gunji jackdaw. Ostrich-like bird. A Gunji jackdaw appeared, Space 9. Organized by Rom in 2372 ~ | along with numerous other unexpected individuals, on the in response to abusive pay cuts » Promenade of station Deep Space 9 on stardate 46853. The instituted by bar owner Quark. The { J | Gunji jackdaw replica was created by unknown aliens from the guild, which was successful in gain- [ Gamma Quadrant who were trying to study humanoid life. (“If ing significant concessions from = Wishes Were Horses" [DS9]) Quark, was officially dissolved under pressure from the FCA, but continued to exist under an unofficial agreement with Quark. gunpowder. Explosive chemical mixture made from sulfur, salt(“Bar Association” [DS9]). SEE: O'Brien, Sean Aloysius. peter, and charcoal, used in ancient projectile weapons. Kirk, trapped on an artificial planetoid created by the Metrons in 2267, Guinan. (Whoopi Goldberg). Bar- used native materials to make gunpowder for use in a weapon tender at the Ten-Forward Lounge against the Gorn. (“Arena" [TOS|) aboard the Starship Enterprise-D. (“The Child" [TNG]). Guinan was a Gupta, Admiral. Starfleet official. Gupta visited station Deep member of a civilization of listeners, Space 9 on stardate 47552.9 to assess movement of Cardassian but her people, the El-Aurians, troops along the Federation/Cardassian Demilitarized Zone. were nearly wiped out by the Borg (“Whispers" [DS9]) in the late 23rd century. While fleeing from her homeworld aboard the guramba. In the Nausicaan language, a word that roughly transS.S. Lakul in 2293, Guinan was lates as “conviction” or “courage.” (“Tapestry” [TNG]). briefly swept into an alternate reality known as the nexus. (Star Trek gymnasium. Recreational and exercise area aboard the U.S.S. Generations). The few survivors Enterprise. Kirk attempted to teach Charles Evans some basic among her people escaped by martial-arts skills in the gym. (“Charlie X" [TOS]). Among the spreading themselves across the equipment in the Deck 12 gymnasium on the Enterprise-D is an galaxy. Guinan was one of the sur- anbo-jytsu ring. (“The Icarus Factor” [TNG])