PERSONNEL FILE: FEDERATION

NAME: Guinan
RANK: Bartender
BORN: not on file
PLACE OF BIRTH: El-Auria
ORIGIN: El-Aurian
ASSIGNMENT: U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-E
LAST SHIP: U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D
ACADEMY CLASS: not on file
BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS: Bartender at the Ten-Forward Lounge aboard the Starships Enterprise-D and -E. Guinan is a member of a race of listeners, but her people, the El-Aurians, were nearly wiped out by the Borg in the late 23rd century. While fleeing from her homeworld aboard the S.S. Lakul in 2293, Guinan was briefly swept into an alternate reality known as the nexus. The few survivors among her people escaped by spreading themselves across the galaxy. Guinan was one of these survivors. Guinan spent some time on Earth prior to that planet's development of space travel. She lived in the Earth city of San Francisco in the year 1893, where she met writes Samuel Clemens, as well as future shipmates Data, Picard, etc., who had traveled back in time. Guinan was probably born in the 19th century, making her about 500 years old when she served on the Enterprise-D. Her father was about 200 years old at the time of Guinan's birth. Guinan and Q (see file) are old acquaintances, having met each other some two centuries ago, but neither has been particularly enlightening about the encounter, save for the fact that they hate each other. She has been married several times, and has had many children. According to her they all turned out right, except one that wouldn't listen. Guinan possesses an unusual sense that extends beyond normal linear space-time. She, alone, was intuitively aware of the damage to the "normal" flow of time caused when the Enterprise-C was swept some 22 years into its future, causing an alternate time line. Guinan warned Picard that history had been altered, persuading him to return the Enterprise-C back to 2344 to restore the flow of time. Such was Picard's faith in Guinan that he accepted this extraordinary recommendation.
ACHIEVEMENTS, AWARDS: not on file
FAMILY: Parents, names not on file (deceased); Uncle, Terkim, whereabouts not on file; Ex-husbands, names and whereabouts not on file; Numerous children, names and whereabouts not on file.