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.