Guinan

Stands motionless behind bar, performs their meeting with an economical tilt of the head—a silent directive that funnels Picard toward revelation rather than reprimand. Her gaze catches the velvet shift …

Behind the bar, Guinan performs only one visible act: a minimal tilt of her hand. In that gesture she reroutes the ship's sovereign away from destinationless anger and toward destination …

Guinan patiently but firmly challenges Data's mechanical interpretation of humor, employing a meta-joke to demonstrate emotional resonance—which he misses entirely—before offering pragmatic guidance.

Guinan listens to Data's joke with patient resignation, delivers a deadpan critique disguised as a eulogy, and prepares to endure another attempt before the interruption. Her final line carries both …

Serves as Data's reluctant audience and unwilling humor coach, responding to his robotic joke-telling with deadpan sarcasm and barely concealed exasperation at his failures.

Guinan offers reluctant support to Data, standing off to the side during his performance and providing whimsical commentary, ultimately offering him sympathy when he realizes the audience's laughter is programmed.

Watches Data alternately with amusement and sympathy from the sidelines, offering dry commentary that highlights the absurdity of this mechanical approach to humor while subtly encouraging his continued efforts.

Watches Data's performance from the wings, offering ironic commentary that underscores the difference between authentic humor and technical imitation.

Delivers the killing blow to Data's joke with theatrical shivering, her critique wrapped in affectionate bluntness.

Guinan explains the rarity of the Thurasian rainwater with wisdom and provides blunt yet amused feedback on Data's joke, blending her roles as sage and provocateur.

Switches seamlessly from teasing Data about chickens to delivering an ominous warning to Riker about Ira Graves, her enigmatic smile implying foreknowledge of coming danger.

Guinan provides playful yet insightful commentary on humor, teasing Data with anthropological observations, then shifts to delivering a cryptic warning about Ira Graves.

Guinan leans casually against the bar, alternating between playful mentorship of Data's humor attempts and delivering cryptic wisdom to Riker about Ira Graves. Her suppressed smiles and sly tone convey …

Having watched Picard from behind the bar, Guinan crosses with two drinks, listens, asks precise questions that unstick his thinking, and supplies the moral label ('slavery') that makes the abstract …

Removes two drinks from the bar and crosses to Picard; listens quietly, asks probing questions, reframes the strategic stakes in moral terms and gives him the single word that crystallizes …

Approaches from behind the bar with two drinks, listens attentively to Picard's confession, asks incisive questions that expose long-term consequences, names the moral term 'slavery', and offers a terse benediction …

Guinan agrees to be Riker's stand‑in, teases and reframes his lines as invitations, reads the deeper intent behind his words, and gently taunts Wesley — providing both instruction and emotional …

Guinan agrees to participate, moves from behind the bar to the table, plays the role of the receptive stranger, teasing Riker and responding to his lines with a mixture of …

Guinan hovers at the table with two dishes of Thalian chocolate mousse, gives Wesley a sotto prompt to bolster his courage, places the desserts between the pair, then smiles and …

Enters with two dishes of Thalian chocolate mousse, prompts Wesley with a sotto voce nudge to compliment Salia, then watches Salia flee and offers a consoling, quietly wise reframe to …

Guinan approaches with two dishes of mousse, offers a whispered prod to Wesley, places the desserts between them, then withdraws; after Salia flees she delivers a consoling, interpretive line that …

Guinan enters Ten-Forward, sits beside Wesley, listens without judgment, validates his sensation, and offers a tempered, wise perspective about love's recurrence while allowing the pain to remain acknowledged.

Guinan pauses mid‑shift at the bar, becomes thoughtful, moves to the center of Ten‑Forward, steps to the communications panel, hails the bridge, asks about anomalies, then deliberately withdraws and stares …

Guinan moves to the table's vicinity, deliberately separates herself, and stares out at the stars. When asked she answers with a quiet, evasive 'I don't know' and then resumes looking …

Guinan approaches the table, looks out at the stars, answers Geordi with a terse 'I don't know' even as her face reveals deeper knowledge, watches Geordi and Sonya leave, then …

Guinan reacts instantly and wordlessly to Q's sudden appearance beside Picard — a physical recoil that signals deep recognition and an internal alarm, converting unease into urgent apprehension among any …

Guinan approaches the window, publicly names Q from memory, and delivers a terse, fearful warning about his nature and history; she pleads for restraint and attempts to avert Q's escalation …

Approaches with urgency and bluntness, identifies Q as a dangerous 'creature', urges immediate removal, and pleads with Picard (and Q) to avoid escalation before Q acts.

Guinan confronts Q directly, warns Picard sharply about Q's danger, pleads for Q's removal, and finally cries out as Q acts — her history and premonition puncturing the crew's debate …

Stares out the window, confirms her people's prior presence in this region, and counsels immediate retreat—delivering a warning informed by traumatic memory rather than technical data.

Guinan looks out the viewport, affirms that her people have been in this part of the galaxy, and urgently counsels immediate retreat, invoking lived memory and trauma to warn the …

Guinan moves from Ten-Forward to her office, activates a personal viewscreen, confirms she can see the approaching ship, and delivers a grave identification and warning rooted in traumatic memory.

Guinan moves from Ten‑Forward to her office, activates a viewscreen, observes the same image as the bridge, and delivers a stark eyewitness identification and warning about the Borg based on …

Guinan leaves Ten‑Forward, activates her small office viewscreen, and delivers a grave, personal identification of the ship: the Borg. Her warning is laced with memory and urgency, reframing the tactical …

Guinan delivers a stark eyewitness account of cultural annihilation, corrects Picard's hopes for negotiation, and communicates grim operational history that collapses optimism about parley.

Guinan provides a terse, haunted eyewitness cultural history of Borg devastation — her language evokes total societal collapse and warns that the Borg arrive en force, undermining any assumption of …

Guinan delivers a terse, traumatic report about her people's annihilation by the Borg, confirming that the Borg operate en masse and do not act piecemeal, answering direct questions with grave …

Remains on the scene as command departs to conference, offers condolences to Picard and provides fragmentary background knowledge about the Borg during the debrief.

Guinan remains present after the attack, offers a brief apology to Picard, and prepares to answer his questions about the Borg with the limited, painful knowledge she has.

Guinan stays with the senior officers into the conference; she expresses sorrow for the casualties and offers haunted, fragmentary knowledge about the Borg—delivering the episode's first emotional and historical warning.

Guinan watches the leadership mobilize, voices unease and a private warning against going aboard the Borg ship, and quietly observes the away team being assembled and exiting.

Guinan reacts vocally to the decision to visit the Borg, objects quietly but pointedly, and watches the departing away team with visible concern and foreboding.

Guinan reacts to Picard's decision with visible alarm, voices a clear warning against boarding the Borg ship, and watches the team assemble and depart with reluctant foreboding.

Referenced by Picard as the source who identified the attackers as 'the Borg'; her prior knowledge and naming provide the crew with a specific, ominous identity for the threat.

Guinan stands as the declarant and moral memory of the scene, delivering a stark diagnosis about premature contact with the Borg and insisting they are now aware and will come; …

Guinan accepts Riker's request, moves to the table, engages in playful, teasing banter, listens and reframes his declarations as invitations rather than tricks, and responds dreamily to his poetry—both participating …

Watches from behind the bar, agrees to the request, walks to and sits at the nearby table, and engages Riker with teasing, invitational banter that both tests and welcomes his …

Guinan moves from behind the bar to a table at Riker’s request, listens and teases, probes Riker’s sincerity, and issues a cautionary oracle—'Dreams can be dangerous'—while ultimately encouraging the conversation.

Sitting initially on a barstool, Guinan watches Wesley, rises, approaches, asks disarming questions, and uses a brief Frankenstein parable to expose his rationalization—calmly forcing him from avoidance to admission and …

Seated on a barstool, Guinan notices Wesley, approaches slowly, questions him with quiet persistence and moral clarity, and steers the conversation so Wesley owns his mistake; she closes the scene …

Guinan perches beside Beverly at the bar, answers questions with concise, wry anecdotes about parenting, offers the pivotal counsel that shaping happens subtly and 'sometimes just by listening,' and gestures …

Guinan sits with Beverly, offers a laconic anecdote about a long-lived child who 'wouldn't listen', gestures toward Wesley and Annette entering, and reframes parenting as shaping through listening rather than …

Guinan moves to serve Geordi at the bar, remaining discreet and attentive; she offers a stabilizing presence without intruding, signaling emotional calibration rather than overt interrogation.

Guinan moves from her post to the bar to serve and attend to Geordi; she positions herself to offer quiet, nonjudgmental presence rather than overt counsel, stabilizing the moment emotionally.

Guinan listens, answers with breezy honesty and a small personal anecdote; she punctures Geordi's analytical approach with a plainspoken preference and then gently reframes his behavior as performance rather than …

Guinan listens closely, offers a concise, pointed challenge urging Geordi toward authenticity — "Try flying without instruments" — and, after he leaves, murmurs a rueful aside that marks compassionate resignation.

Approaches Q with a controlled grin, retrieves a fork from behind the counter and deliberately stabs Q's hand to demonstrate he can be harmed, then rebukes him verbally for centuries …

Approaches Q with a calm, controlled grin, picks up a fork from behind the counter and stabs his hand deliberately to demonstrate he bleeds; admonishes him with a sharp moral …

Guinan watches the cloud, names it 'Calamarain' aloud, and delivers a cutting, moralized reaction to Q’s humiliation—framing the phenomenon as an entity and Q’s fall as deserved social reckoning.

Recognizes and names the phenomenon ('Calamarain') in Ten Forward, watches Q's isolation with a detached, morally pointed calm and later delivers a cutting public rebuke that reframes Q's fall from …

Approaches Worf with an offered drink, playfully teases him about his solitary habits by gesturing to a young couple, sits with him and pushes gently on his emotional armor, then …

Moves to Worf's table, offers and insists he try prune juice, teases him about companionship, then goes to the viewport and reacts with deep concern and unease upon seeing the …

Guinan stands at the Ten‑Forward panoramic window, watching the rift as its colors shift; her puzzlement tightens into a whispered, instinctive alarm — she utters 'No...' and becomes the first …

Guinan walks slowly around Ten-Forward, frowning and shaking her head; she voices her perception aloud and, when met with a hostile look from a patron, moves quickly for the exit, …

Guinan enters the Enterprise‑D bridge unexpectedly, scans the room with disquiet, interrupts the technical/tactical calculus and urgently insists the situation is wrong — not merely a tactical anomaly but a …

Guinan enters the bridge unannounced, visibly unsettled by the altered environment; she interrupts the protocol with a terse, urgent plea that the situation is fundamentally wrong, reframing the tactical debate …

Guinan sits in the ready room and, struggling to find analytic language, offers intuitive impressions as evidence: the bridge 'is not right,' families and children are missing, and the past …

Guinan enters the observation lounge, confronts Picard directly and offers only a visceral, non‑empirical conviction that the altered timeline is wrong; she pleads, insists and quietly presses the moral weight …

Guinan enters the war‑room, pauses at the doorway, and shifts from analytical discussion to an urgent personal plea, admitting she has no empirical proof but asking Picard to trust her …

Guinan returns to the bar, notices an anomaly in Tasha's demeanor, attempts casual service but deliberately avoids eye contact, and withdraws quickly after a terse interaction that reveals her deeper …

Guinan returns to Ten-Forward, moves behind the bar, glances at Tasha and Castillo, and deliberately avoids making eye contact with Tasha; she performs casual cleaning while stepping away quickly after …

Standing behind the Ten-Forward bar, Guinan meets Tasha's direct questions with calm restraint and delivers a grave, concise revelation that she previously shared with the captain. Her manner is steady, …

Standing behind the bar in Ten-Forward, Guinan meets Tasha's question with composed gravity, admits she told the captain earlier, and delivers the blunt assessment that Tasha 'wasn't supposed to be …

Not physically present in the room but explicitly invoked by Tasha as the source of the revelation that Yar 'wasn't supposed to be alive'; functions as the unseen moral instigator …

From off‑bridge, uses the ship's com channel to check on Picard in a tone that reads as both personal concern and a quiet moral probe, disrupting the bridge's procedural rhythm.

Guinan initiates a brief, intimate com to Picard from off‑bridge, asking if everything is all right; her voice carries uncommon concern that punctures the bridge's procedural cadence and reframes the …

Guinan stands behind the bar holding a freshly made drink, surveys Ten-Forward with a sad, satisfied nod, moves down the counter to hand the drink to Geordi, leans on the …

Guinan greets Data and Lal, quickly assesses Lal's capacity, interrupts kindly to hire her for a work‑study role, outlines listening as the core skill, reacts with amused surprise when Lal …

Guinan meets Data and Lal warmly, immediately offers Lal a practical apprenticeship in listening, gently reframes Lal's linguistic misstep into a teachable moment, and conversationally validates social learning while displaying …

Guinan instructs Lal about flirting, translates observed behavior into human terms, intervenes quickly when Lal kisses Riker, using a corrective but gentle command to de-escalate and protect both Lal and …

Guinan watches from behind the bar, provides coaching about human behavior to Lal, moves to intervene when the kiss occurs, and issues a corrective command to defuse the situation and …

Stationed behind the bar, Guinan interjects with dry humor and practical authority, defending Ten-Forward as an educational environment and reassuring the admiral that patrons can be managed.

Guinan stands behind the bar, defends Ten-Forward as a social learning space with wry confidence, downplays Lal's spills as normal learning, and meets Picard's look with a resigned shrug when …

The Ten-Forward Bartender serves ales to the False Picard and the crew upon his request, facilitating the sing-along. He remains a neutral presence, providing the physical means for the False …

The Ten-Forward Bartender serves ales to the crew at the False Picard's request, facilitating the sing-along. He moves efficiently behind the bar, his actions neutral and professional. He does not …

Holo-Guinan approaches Barclay with a bottle of whisky and a shot glass, delivering a cursory warning about ‘trouble’ before being dismissed with a grin. Her role is minimal but symbolic: …

Holo-Guinan approaches Barclay with a bottle of synthehol and a shot glass, delivering a cautionary line ('I don’t want any trouble, Barclay...') before being dismissed with a grin. Her role …

Guinan is physically absent from the scene but is the instigator of the toast ritual, her presence felt through Beverly’s delivery of the decanter and glasses. Her role is indirect …

Guinan moves through Ten Forward with her tray of drinks, her presence unobtrusive yet commanding. She pauses mid-stride when she hears Riker’s song, her reaction a mix of amusement and …

Guinan overhears Riker’s song in Ten-Forward and cryptically offers him a job performing there, framing it as an alternative path to fulfillment. Her intervention is playful yet loaded with subtext, …

Guinan is the emotional anchor of the scene, her presence a counterbalance to Picard’s despair. She listens attentively from behind the bar, her responses measured and laced with the wisdom …

Guinan is already present in Ten-Forward, her calm demeanor contrasting with the ship’s tense atmosphere. She initiates the dialogue with Picard, challenging his historical parallels with her own traumatic experience …