The timeline is restored when the "Enterprise"-C re-enters the rift. Guinan appears in "" part one, where she and Captain Picard mull over his tactics defending the ship from a Borg vessel, contemplating the potential end of human civilization. Guinan assures Picard that, based on her experience with the Borg, "humanity will survive" even if only a handful of humans live to "keep the spirit alive". Guinan also plays a role in the second part which started the . She advises Commander William Riker (Jonathan Frakes) in his predicament in dealing with the Borg-assimilated Picard. She tells him that her relationship with Picard "goes beyond friendship and beyond family". She appears in the following episode broadcast, which follows up on Picard's experiences as a Borg, "". In "The Loss", Guinan advises Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) when she loses her empathic senses, telling her that she still has her skills as a counselor to rely on. Guinan joins Picard in his holodeck program Dixon Hill in the episode "". Her other appearances in the season included "Galaxy's Child", "" where she reveals she keeps a rifle behind the bar, "", and the first part of "" where she scores higher than Klingon Security Chief Worf (Michael Dorn) on a firing range on the holodeck. Her first appearance in the comes in the first episode, the second part of "Redemption". In "", she strikes up a friendship with Ensign Ro Laren (Michelle Forbes) which would continue for the rest of the other recurring character's appearances in the series. In "", Guinan discusses the nearby nebula with Data in Ten-Forward. In the following episode, "I, Borg", Guinan objects to the presence of the Borg known as Hugh on the "Enterprise"-D. Further revelations of Guinan's backstory are made in the season finale, the first part of "", when after travelling back to 19th century San Francisco, California, Data discovers a photograph of Guinan in a local newspaper. Meanwhile, on the "Enterprise"-D, Guinan advises Picard that he must lead the away team to travel through a temporal rift to save Data in the past. Central to the plot of the second half of "Time's Arrow" which opened the , Guinan meets Picard for the first time in her timeline and works with him and Samuel Clemens to prevent a plot by the aliens of Devidia II.