In Q Who?, Q is introduced to Guinan in the Enterprise-D's Ten-Forward lounge.
He then says: "'Guinan' – is that your name now?" He claims that Guinan, "is not what she appears to be." As well, when Q reaches out his hand towards Guinan and offers to Picard her extradition from the Enterprise, Guinan holds her two hands up at Q in a threatening manner.
So they have obviously some prior history, and Guinan was going by some other name. Does anyone know the backstory? Or what prior history exists between them?
Answer
It is not certain if Guinan and Q waged a war together, all we know is that they knew each other from before.
Guinan had "some dealings" with Q sometime during the 22nd century and indeed other members of the Q Continuum, some of whom she said "were almost respectable". Her exact relationship with Q remains unclear, though it was evidently hostile. Q described Guinan as an "imp" and stated: "where she goes, trouble always follows".
It's also important to add the following.
She was an El-Aurian, a race of "listeners" who were scattered by the Borg. Q, however, once suggested that there is far more to her than could be imagined.
One more explanation could be that the remaining survivors of the Borg encounter are roaming around the galaxy on some mission, that would explain her appearance on Earth all those year ago.
Her species is long-lived, and she is somewhere between 500 and 700 years old when she joins the Enterprise-D. "Time's Arrow, Part I" reveals that she visited Earth in 1891, and "Rascals" establishes that her father was 700 years old during that episode.
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