Guinan's epistemic crisis: a supernatural/intuitive knowing about temporal truth collides with the bridge's demand for empirical proof—she must persuade Picard (and Starfleet procedure) to act on non‑empirical certainty.
Guinan's epistemic crisis: a supernatural/intuitive knowing about temporal truth collides with the bridge's demand for empirical proof—she must persuade Picard (and Starfleet procedure) to act on non‑empirical certainty.
Events in This Arc
In Picard's ready room Guinan delivers a quiet but devastating verdict: the altered reality 'doesn't feel right.' Unable to explain intellectually, she anchors her alarm in concrete images — the …
In the observation lounge, converted into a tense war room, Picard confronts Guinan over whether to send the battered Enterprise‑C back into its doomed past. Data is absent as proof; …
When the battered Enterprise‑C emerges through the rift, young Lieutenant Castillo steps forward and offers to lead the crippled ship back into its doomed past — invoking Captain Garrett’s wishes …