El-Aurians (referred to as a Race of Listeners by Dr. Tolian Soran, the El-Aurian antagonist in Star Trek Generations) are a humanoid race first introduced in the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation with the character Guinan. The species was named in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Rivals."
Q seemed frightened of Guinan, telling Picard that she is "not what she appears to be," and that Picard should remove her from the Enterprise. Considering Q's abilities, it's unclear why he would be afraid of Guinan, and Star Trek has never offered a real explanation for Q's reaction.
Guinan is an El-Aurian, a race of empathic and telepathic beings who are extremely long-lived; Guinan's exact age is never mentioned, but she is well over 500 years old by the time of her appearance in Star Trek: Picard season 2.
According to the novel The Buried Age, Guinan's special abilities and perceptions in regard to time and her ability to perceive Q were due to the echo of her left within the Nexus.
Hailing from a star system beyond Federation space, the El-Aurians are a humanoid species known for their “listening” ability. After their homeworld was destroyed by the Borg, the few survivors became nomads, scattered throughout the galaxy.
There has been no concrete answer given to this question, but it has been shown that El-Aurains are vulnerable to death by injury or attack. This means El-Aurians are not immortal in the same way as a species like the Q, who truly cannot be killed except if they are stripped of their powers.
Guinan was born on the unnamed El-Aurian home planet sometime prior to the late 19th century. She covertly visited Earth in 1893, posing as a wealthy socialite, where she met and befriended famous author Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain.
The El-Aurian lifespan is undetermined, but known to be quite long, with some living to be over 1000 years old. Aside from their long-lived nature, and their perceptive abilities, El-Aurians appear indistinguishable from humans, and frequently intermarry with other species.
It's conceivable Guinan, who seems ageless, remained in California for the next 130 years and eventually migrated to Los Angeles by 2024 if she never left Earth after "Time's Arrow." The next known sighting of Guinan wouldn't be until 2293 when she was aboard the El Aurian ship that was hit by the Nexus at the start of ...
The origin of the Borg is never made clear, though they are portrayed as having existed for hundreds of thousands of years (as attested by Guinan and the Borg Queen).
Guinan is indicated as having vague powers that include sensing alternate time lines (Yesterday's Enterprise), leaving some sort of psychic echo in the Nexus (Generations), and living a very long time (Time's Arrow).
Guinan is actually the same species as The Traveler and is more powerful than Q. But their species is essentially pacifist. Guinan is one of the most aggressive of their species which is why Q fears her.
Q. The Q are potentially the least likely to get assimilated, for not just one reason but two. Firstly, their near omnipotence and god-like powers would make it almost impossible for a Borg, or even all Borg working together, to capture a Q.
The crew on Star Trek often encountered space gods with immense power, but eventually, the sci-fi franchise moved away from deities entirely. Despite being a science fiction franchise, the characters of the various Star Trek shows often encountered omnipotent gods who challenged their belief systems.
While there isn't as much information about their origin as with other species, Star Trek provided several interesting details over the years. The Borg come from the Delta quadrant, and it took them thousands of years to evolve into a life form that combined organic matter with technological implements.
The Vedala were discovered around the middle of the 23rd century (in the year 2268 or 2269), and are recognized by the Federation as the oldest surviving race capable of interstellar space travel. The Vedala space was encountered in Quadrant 1 near the Gamma 7A star system of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Thankfully, the worst case scenario was avoided, and the original Borg are now extinct, removing them as a future threat to Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and the crew of the USS Discovery.
Guinan does not treat Picard as her captain, but simply as her friend. And with the amount of trust Picard places in Guinan, it's clear they have been friends for a long time.
The Q were a species of nigh-omnipotent and immortal non-corporeal entities who inhabited the limitless dimensions of the cosmos known as the Q Continuum.
Because there was no Federation, those events did not play out the same. No previous relationship exists. However, she still was likely traveling to Earth and, as we know, she hung around a bit. So this Guinan is different.
The El-Aurians were a humanoid civilization of "listeners" with extremely long lifespans. Most of them were assimilated by the Borg in the year 2265, the few survivors being scattered throughout the galaxy.
' The reason that she doesn't recognize Picard is that he's traveled from a future in which Starfleet doesn't exist, and therefore the whole thing with Data's head in 'Time's Arrow' never happened.” In other words, the alternate reality Picard was too busy conquering and never traveled back in time to 1893, so he never ...
A couple of reasons. first Picard was willing to sacrifice his life in the future to stay and save an injured Guinan when the crew traveled back to an earlier point in time in earths history. second, Guinan provided invaluable insight to Picard during some of the most confusing and difficult challenges in his career.
