Guinan is an El-Aurian from El-Auria. Her population, every now and again known as "listeners," were scattered through a galaxy after the Borg invaded their homeworld. As a refugee aboard a El-Aurian vessel Lakul, she was rescued from either a Nexus by the Enterprise-B.

Her metal money is long-long-lasting, & she herself is on top 500 years old, though to a lesser degree 700 years old. (A TNG episode "Time's Arrow Part I" reveals she lived on Earth in 1893, and the teaser of the episode "Rascals" established that her father was 700 years old at the time.) Guinan has been married 23 times, as she tells Enterprise-E Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge at the wedding reception of Commander William Riker and Counsellor Deanna Troi in the beginning of Star Trek: Nemesis.

Guinan apparently hwhen occasionally unspecified abilities beyond what is associated using human being or even more El Aurians, as Q seemed to treat her as an match inside his encounters by using her. In the episode "Yesterday's Enterprise", which involved a disruption to the historical timeline caused by the Enterprise-C of 2344 traveling through time and emerging into the Enterprise-D's present of 2365, Guinan was able to sense the disruption to the timeline, even though everyone else believed it to be the natural course of events.

Based on data from Whoopi Goldberg, she approached a creators of Star Trek by owning her want to become on the indicate. Initially the creators did non believe it can produce the role suitable for such a extremely rated actress, until Goldberg said that she didn't care how else large or possibly little a role was, even whenever tons she did was sweep a floors. It was from either this the creators decided to give her a role of a barman. A character was known as for illustrious saloonkeeper Texas Guinan.