Guinan

Character
Name:	Guinan
Occupation:	bartender, counselor
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Fandom:	Star Trek: TNG
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Guinan is the enigmatic bartender in Ten Forward, the lounge aboard the USS Enterprise-D on Star Trek: The Next Generation. She often offers counsel to ship's personnel. She is a member of the El-Aurian race, well known as "listeners." Her people were scattered by the Borg. She is played by Whoopi Goldberg. In Season Two of Star Trek: Picard, it is revealed that a younger Guinan (Ito Aghayer) once ran a bar at 10 Forward Avenue in Los Angeles on Earth. (A holographic facsimile of this bar now exists on Starfleet vessels.)

Fandom

Shipping

On the Archive of Our Own as of April 2018, Guinan appears most frequently as a side character (the top ship in her character tag is Data/Geordi La Forge), but she has also appears in the following ships:

• Guinan/Ro Laren (7 works)
• Guinan/Lwaxana Troi (4 works)
• Guinan/Jean-Luc Picard (2 works)
• Guinan/Q (2 works)
• Guinan & Q (1 work)
• Guinan/Deanna Troi (1 work)
• Guinan/William Riker (1 work)

Fanworks

Fanfic

• Dance of Chameleon and Mirror by Alara Rogers (1994) -- backstory for the bitter enmity between Q and Guinan

Fanart

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  back cover of Eridani #10, Julie Nosal (1990)

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  inside art from I, Q, art by Ron Summers (1991)

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  Eridani #17 back cover, Julie Nosal (1992)

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  Front cover of Make It So issue #8, Ruth Mellor (1992)

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  front cover of Eridani #23, Julie Nosal (1994)

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  interior art of Nine, Pam Whitelark (1994)

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  caricature art from Involution #7, subject is Captain Picard and Guinan, artist is Janet D'Airo (1995)

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  Guinan at her bar in Ten Forward. The artist loleia writes: "...as I was watching an episode today I noticed how cool the light and the colors are in Ten Forward, especially behind the bar. And so she came to be! This is very experimental for me; it's a kind of coloring I have never tried before, but I don't think I would've been able to achieve it if I hadn't looked at it on the show first." (2008)

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  a more recent example of Guinan in fan art: 2014 by Deviantartist spiritius

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  Artist: grayscaleart. Format: Soft pastels on watercolor paper. One Deviantart viewer writes "Lovely work! I love the dramatic contrasts between light and dark in this piece, especially the way you handled the shadows and highlights on the face." (2014)

Meta/Further Reading

• Guinan - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki, ^{Archived version}
• List of Star Trek: The Next Generation characters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ^{Archived version}
• Star Trek Database Guinan, ^{Archived version}
• Guinan: Intergalactic Woman of Mystery (and Hats) by Women at Warp (podcast)

Archives and Links

• Guinan tag at AO3
• Guinan at FanFiction.net
• Guinan at Trekiverse

Resources

• Guinan at Memory Alpha
• Wikipedia