apparently Whoopi Goldberg headcanons that 1.) Guinan is Jean Luc Picard’s distant ancestor and 2.) she and Q used to hook up
which suggests the possibility that Q is Picard’s great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather, who decided to introduce himself to his grandson by putting him on trial for the crimes of all humanity, and that’s why he’s Like That
I just rewatched the series and I know two things about Guinan for sure:
1) she and Q are absolutely exes, and
2) Q is scared shitless of her because she’s something powerful. When he flashes himself and Picard into Ten Forward, she lifts both hands to strike and he recoils into the bulkhead and starts shrilly demanding that Picard rid the ship of her that instant. She is not afraid of him at all, not even the small, healthy amount that Picard is.
the face of an unfathomly ancient and powerful grandma who knows all about the mean pranks you’ve been playing on her grandson
