Star Trek Theory: Picard's Watcher Has To Be Guinan, Right?
Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Star Trek: Picard season 2, episode 3.
Jean-Luc Picard and his crew are seeking out a mysterious "Watcher" in Star Trek: Picard season 2, and it surely has to be Guinan. The quasi-omnipotent being who calls himself Q has always delighted in playing insane games with Picard, but now he's playing the biggest to date. He has rewritten history, creating a dystopian timeline in which Earth became a brutal and warlike Confederation that came close to the galaxy.
Picard has learned Q used time travel to accomplish this, traveling back to the year 2024 to institute some mysterious change to the timeline. With the unlikely help of the Borg Queen, Picard and his crew have traveled back to 2024 — just before the divergence. Their hope is to somehow prevent Q changing the timeline, thereby restoring the world they know. The stakes are higher than ever before, because should Picard fail in his mission the Federation will never have existed, and instead the galaxy will be destined to be crushed beneath the heel of the human Confederation.
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Fortunately, it seems Picard and his crew can expect help in 2024. According to the Borg Queen, there is a mysterious "Watcher," someone whose advice could help Picard and his team figure out what to do and how to correct history. The identity of Picard's Watcher is currently a mystery, but there's a pretty obvious candidate: Jean-Luc's old friend Guinan.
Guinan is a member of a race called the El-Aurians, a race of humanoids who consider themselves "listeners." They are renowned for their empathic abilities, and some El-Aurians — notably Guinan — have even demonstrated a degree of
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