Crassus sat with two books resting open on the coffee table, a datapad to the side. The Kabalim's grimoire and his own. Their observations and knowledge of Wanderers seemed to line up, if Crass had a much different overall opinion than the Kabalim had. Now that he'd noticed the patterns, the Captain couldn't leave it alone.
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The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.
The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency
Nick Marsh - Business reporter
Mon, April 20, 2026 at 6:53 AM MST
Throughout US President Donald Trump's second term in office, traders have been betting millions of dollars just before he makes major announcements.
The BBC has examined trade volume data on several financial markets and matched them to some of the president's most significant market-moving statements.
It found a consistent pattern of spikes just hours, or sometimes minutes, before a social media post or media interview was made public.
271 was a great chapter plot-wise. Finally we are moving somewhere. Itâs all going in the direction I suspected it would. Hak and Soo-won will most likely be lost (temporarily) and Yona will be left alone until the time-skip we are familiar with.
The interesting turn was Yonaâs offer to the gods to come down to earth to live with her. It would actually make sense and I donât get why havenât the four dragon gods done it back then with Hiryuu - turn into human beings and live alongside him until they die and return to heavens together.
It is logical and might work out. But I would be disappointed if the dragon gods will not be punished for what they have done so far. Are they really going to live with Yona as if nothing ever happened? Though they might simply sit in the dragon warriorsâ bodies like the yellow dragon did and watch over Hiryuu until they all die and leave earth finally together.
The question now would be: Zeno, Soo-won, Hak and the fallen white dragon. What happens to them?
Soo-won and Hak are both on brink of death and the only solution I see is them getting the power of gods.
Soo-won might get the soul/power of the golden dragon. Right now he is dying, both from the illness and his wounds, the only thing that could save him is him getting Zenoâs power. There is a high chance that Yona will eventually kill Zeno to bring him peace and save Soo-won.
Hak on the other hand may get the soul/power of the white dragon, since they are kind of stuck together. It will save the lives of both of them. Btw, Hakâs name âHakuâ literally means âwhiteâ. Coincidence? I donât think so.
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Duet: Kira's investigation of a visiting Cardassian leads her to believe the man is a notorious war criminal guilty of several atrocities.
Suspicions: Dr. Crusher puts her career on the line to prove a scientist's theoretical new shielding technology which may have cost him his life.
The City On The Edge Of Forever: When a temporarily insane Dr. McCoy accidentally changes history and destroys his time, Kirk and Spock follow him to prevent the disaster, but the price to do so is high.
Guinan gives The Next Generation the closest thing the show gets to a wizard: just some kind of supernatural being whose unquestioned wisdom gets the heroes out of scrape after scrape but whose true powers are never entirely explained. Oh, and she wears baller hats.
Sure, she may play into that âbartender, here to listen to your problems and guide you on your pathâ trope (which frankly Deanna should be doing but rarely does), but Guinan is so much more than that. Weâre going to get into the good number of moments this week on A Star to Steer Her By, so get ready for your personal epiphany as you read on below and listen to our chatter on the podcast (pull up a stool at 1:02:25). El-Aurians are always listening.
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Best moments
Whole generations of disposable people
Simultaneously one of Picardâs best scenes, the peptalk Guinan gives to Jean-Luc when heâs being thoroughly whooped by Rikerâs prosecution in âThe Measure of a Manâ feels like a turning point in the show. Whoopi Goldbergâs calm presence as a Black woman in a scene about creating androids as slaves imbues their discussion with meaning, weight, and stakes that are both personal and universal.
Every time you feel love itâll be different
The perpetual sounding board, Guinan helps Wesley parse his feelings at the end of âThe Dauphinâ in a scene we really give the both of them credit for. Guinan doesnât speak down to the kid or just tell him everything will be okay while heâs broken hearted after watching Salia leave. She tells it like it is: love is deeply subjective and his feelings are valid.
A warriorâs drink
Guinan introducing Worf to prune juice in âYesterdayâs Enterpriseâ is such a perfect microcosmic scene depicting her character in a lot of ways. She just knows people. Worf is a tough nut to crack, but she reads people in such a way that she figures out just what heâd like in a drink, just as she does later in the episode on a much greater scaleâŚ
I look at things, I look at people, and they just donât feel right
âŚwhen she figures out the parallel dimension problem at the heart of âYesterdayâs Enterprise.â In that slightly fantastical wizard way she has, Guinan can feel that something is wrong with the timeline when the Enterprise-C shows up out of some rift or other and suddenly her once familiar crewmates are denizens of a warship. And even better, she gets Picard to believe her.
You have to let go of Picard
Whenever anyone on the crew needs a little guidance, that seems to come from a really great scene with the shipâs bartender, and who could possibly need it more than Riker at the top of âThe Best of Both Worlds, Part 2â? She gives him the confidence he needs to keep going in the absence of Picard, whom she insists sheâs super close to for reasons we donât know yet.
Job opening in the Empath field
Another crisis, another peptalk from Guinan. We all know Troi handles losing her empath powers in âThe Lossâ pretty terribly, but you know who handled it great? This El-Aurian bartender I know who swoops in and reverse psychologizes Troi with such stealth that even if she had all her senses at the time, Deanna wouldnât have known what hit her!
You saw exactly what you wanted to see in the holodeck
It is downright glorious how Guinan puts Geordi in his place in âGalaxyâs Childâ when heâs unironically whining about how Leah Brahms is nothing like the hologram he created of her (vom!). âShe's probably done the most horrific thing one person can do to another,â she says, ânot live up to your expectations,â and I canât help but stand up and applaud.
Iâve heard some Klingon belly laughs that would curl your hair
Guinanâs advice to crewmembers isnât limited to the human ones! In âRedemption,â she not only schools Worf in holodeck target practice (and left-landed, to boot!), but she also makes him consider what it means to be Klingon, as his experiences are atypical from most of his people. We have no doubt that her chat with him inspired him to get involved in Kurnâs war.
You ainât never had a friend like me
When Guinan sees other officers like La Forge pointedly avoiding Ro Laren, she makes it a point to befriend her in âEnsign Ro.â That in and of itself is very Guinan-like behavior, but it also comes with some of her copyrighted motivational chats when she is able to convince Ro to come clean to Picard about the secret mission she was tasked with for Admiral Kennelly.
I tell you, that razorbeast was a good friend
All throughout âImaginary Friend,â while the other officers not only infantilize Clara Sutter for having an imaginary friend, but they entirely ignore the signs that something isnât right. Everyone except Guinan. Guinan talks to Clara as an equal, even if sheâs a child, and imparts the story of her own imaginary friend: a Tarkassian razor beast, which somehow seems fitting.
We are also lonely
Despite being conflicted about Hugh being on board in âI, Borg,â Guinan goes and meets with him and itâs such a cute little scene. You forget that someone as old and wizened as Guinan still has things to learn, and to find some common ground with a Borg was unexpected for her. And she even convinces Picard to see him too, giving us yet another great scene from this great episode.
Why are you still sitting here?
Letâs see, is there a single member of the crew Guinan hasnât peptalked yet⌠ah right, Dr. Crusher. Now we have a full BINGO card! Our final tete-a-tete from Guinan comes in âSuspicionsâ when Bev is doubting her decisions to look into Dr. Reygaâs murder and Guinan cheers her on until the good doctor solves the mystery, kills the baddy, and flies in a sun like a badass! Truly so many of our Best Moments from other character spotlights are initiated by Guinan!
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Worst moments
Give yourself permission to be selfish
Guinanâs first significant scene in the series is in âThe Child,â and of course sheâs doing better counseling than Troi. However, your hosts here at SSHB canât help but cringe because, while the show got rid of Beverly Crusher for a season, it means we were still stuck with Wesley because Guinan convinced him to stay, especially after a season in which we were so annoyed by his character all the time! Guinan, how could you?
Youâre a âdroid and I'm a ânoid
You saw above all the times Guinan helped all the other characters with a little self introspection to find their way through a problem, and the one character whom Iâd say she fails with is Data in âThe Outrageous Okona.â Itâs probably because encouraging Data to consult Joe Pesci on how to do comedy led to the events of my least favorite TNG episode, and itâs all Guinanâs fault!
Tell me more about my eyes
While the scene in which Riker flirts with Guinan when Wesley asks for dating advice in âThe Dauphinâ is hot as hell and inspired a little bit of shipping, weâve got to admit that itâs not at all helpful to Wesley. Usually Guinan scenes are much more beneficial to the crewmember who is struggling, and in this one, none of this is what Wes asked for. Iâm still totally into it though.
Let me introduce you to the Borg
We learn in âQ Who?â that the El-Aurians were almost wiped out by Borg⌠because apparently Guinan and her people never told Starfleet this before? Think about it: she clues Picard in after Q has flung them into the Delta Quadrant about who the Borg are, and it is news to him! Starfleet spends every other interaction with Borg playing catch up because they donât have any info on them!
Thatâs what you get, Charlie! You get fork stabbed!
Pardon the Itâs Always Sunny in Philadelphia quote, but I couldnât help myself. And Guinan seems to me no better than a McPoyle when she stabs the suddenly human Q with a fork in âDĂŠjĂ Qâ and generally mocks him. It just seems petty and violent for a character who is usually so stoic and reserved. So much for the tolerant Alpha Quadrant.
But I know it was an empty death, a death without purpose
While Guinan had a lot of instances from our Best Moments list above from âYesterdayâs Enterprise,â weâre still troubled by her nudging Tasha Yar to go sacrifice herself on the Enterprise-C to make up for her waste of a death in âSkin of Evil.â Even if you consider it a better death than a tarpit, then you get freakinâ Sela in âRedemption,â which Guinan somehow blames Picard for when sheâs the one who compelled Yar to go!
That was setting number one
While some might give credit to Guinan for quelling a riot before it could get out of control when everyone was on edge due to sleep deprivation in âNight Terrors,â Iâm not one of them. As I said in âDĂŠjĂ Q,â violence doesnât seem the answer for Guinan, and this scene escalated so quickly (partly because the bar scenes in this episode feel like afterthoughts), it makes me wonder how she let things get that bad.
A Yankee in Captain Picardâs Court
Oh boy, Iâve got to question some of Guinanâs standards when we see her hanging out with Samuel Clemens in âTimeâs Arrowâ (and a terribly acted Sam Clemens at that!) after Picard had claimed in âEnsign Roâ that sheâs very picky about her friends. Her cohorting with the author led to some of the most obnoxious scenes from The Next Generation that Iâve ever seen.
Our relationship is beyond friendship, beyond family
There are several instances of Guinan hinting at her and Picardâs established kinship before we get to the story of the bald man who was kind to her in âTimeâs Arrowâ and my reaction was⌠thatâs it? We say sometimes that leaving something unexplained is better than giving it a stupid explanation, and oh boy, Picard just sitting with Guinan in a cave once was totally fizzled what had been built up for so long.
Were you this much fun when you were a kid?
Some of this is the overall child acting being bad in âRascalsâ and Guinanâs child actor had it especially stacked against her since her voice had to get dubbed (resulting in her just sounding super smug all the time), but boy was she insufferable as a child! It was cute for adult Guinan to befriend adult Ro in âEnsign Ro,â but we felt bad that little Laren had to put up with this! Let this girl mope by herself, lady!
Forty to love
Though Guinan helps boost Beverlyâs confidence in âSuspicions,â she does it by tricking her with this lie about playing tennis that just seemed unnecessary. Guinan always finds ways to converse with people who need it, but this whole tacked-on frame story had some weirdness to it because it forced both Guinan and the episode to be indirect when it really didnât have to.
Think of me as an echo of the person you know
Iâll take every opportunity I get to shit on the Nexus in Generations. Itâs just such a confusing device they used to get Picard and Kirk together that really makes no sense if you think about it for more time that itâs actually onscreen, which isnât a lot. And thereâs an echo of Guinan in there, feeding Picard exposition and generally complicating what this place is supposed to be, and Iâm just done with it.
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Thatâs enough from Guinanâs advice column this week! Weâve got a really special DOUBLE spotlight next week, in which Tasha Yar and Ro Laren are going to go head to head for the title of Baddest Bitch on the Enterprise-D. Place your bets now and be sure to come back for that! Also keep coming back for more of our series watch of Enterprise over on SoundCloud or wherever you get your podcasts, order a drink with us over on Facebook and Twitter, and enjoy your prune juice.