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Subject: Answers Date: Tue, Sep 15, 1998 14:48 EDT From: RonDMoore Message-id: <1998091518484500.OAA11024@ladder03.news.aol.com>

When I get the time, you get the answers:

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We're also bandying about some ideas for Garak/Bashir, and I hope we'll do one before time runs out.

<<In issue 79 (1991) of the publication Star Trek: The Official Fan Club an article appeared (recently republished in Star Trek Communicator) wherein Whoopi Goldberg made the following remarks:

STC: Did the producers ever tell you how Guinan knows Q?

WG: [Laughs] Yes, but I'm not allowed to say how she knows Q. It would give away why and what she's doing there on the Enterprise. That whole theme won't be dealt with until my relationship with Star Trek is done. So let's hope that it doesn't ever come up.

STC: Many fans have wondered what Guinan meant in the episode The Best of Both Worlds when she said that she was more than family and more than a friend with Captain Picard. What did she mean?

WG: [Laughs] I can't tell you! I wish I could. But it did leave you wondering and I think that was the idea. It is those things that keep you guessing. But there is something there.

SO! My question(s):

Have the storylines ever been resolved or addressed? If so I must have missed the episode. It would be fascinating for you to reveal some of the original plans for the character which have never been brought to fruition.>

To be honest, I have no idea what Whoopi is talking about. She might be referring to a conversation she had with Gene or Maurice Hurley when she first came on the show in which they discussed a possible Q/Guinan backstory. However, by the time I came on in TNG's 3rd season, there was no backstory sitting around or even talked about on the writing staff.

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No. I don't think there are any references to any major league players in the episode.

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Now batting for the Niners: Sisko, Jake, Kira, Ezri, Worf, Quark, Rom, Leeta, Bashir, O'Brien, and Kasidy. (Not the actual batting order, which would give you some idea of who's playing what.)