Star Trek: Why Doesn’t Guinan Remember Picard?

If we see Picard and Guinan reunited, we need to see Patrick Stewart and Whoopi Goldberg’s chemistry, and for those who can drop that clanger of a line about El-Aurians growing older once they select to, you have got some handwavium about them with the ability to age up-and-down at will.

And it’s hinted at, repeatedly throughout Star Trek: The Subsequent Era, that Picard and Guinan’s friendship goes far longer and deeper than the present ever straight addresses. Why not give Guinan not one, however two historic encounters with Picard? Why not have Guinan working on the 21^st century Ten Ahead and see her response to a human from the 24^th century stroll in who she final noticed within the 19^th? Isn’t that a extra compelling story?

Why does your story want a clear slate when the very premise of your collection is about how a lot the slate has been written on?

Again to the Future

Nevertheless, narrative gripes apart, it seems that Guinan forgetting Picard isn’t a large blunder from the writers, however an intentional product of the best way they present time journey within the present.

Because the showrunner, Terry Matalas has defined, “This Guinan wouldn’t bear in mind Picard as a result of on this alternate timeline, the TNG story ‘Time’s Arrow’ by no means occurred. As a result of there was no Federation, these occasions didn’t play out the identical. No earlier relationship exists. Nevertheless, she nonetheless was seemingly touring to Earth and, as we all know, she hung round a bit. So this Guinan is completely different. However she, in fact, can sense one thing is off. She’s going via a form of time-sickness because of Q’s meddling with the timeline.”

Folks arguing about this on the web have pointed to an inconsistency in Matalas’ rationalization. When Seven and Rafaella are travelling on a bus in 2024, they ask a punk to show off his obnoxious music (Kirk Thatcher, enjoying his personal tune). The punk responds by shortly and politely turning his music off whereas seemingly genuinely frightened.