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STARFLEET PERSONNEL FILE -- Troi, Deanna
Played By: Marina Sirtis
Rank: Commander
Current assignment: Ship's counselor, U.S.S. Enterprise,
NCC-1701-E
Full Name: Deanna Troi
Date of birth: Terran equivalent: March 29, 2336
Place of birth: Near Lake El-Nar, Betazed
Parents:
Betazoid Ambassador Lwaxana Troi and the late
Starfleet Lt. Ian Andrew Troi
Education: Starfleet Academy, 2355-59; advanced study
at University on Betazed
Marital status: Single
Children: One, deceased, via alien conception taking human
form: Ian Andrew Jr., b/d 2365
Quarters: Formerly, Enterprise Deck 9/Room 0910
Office: Formerly, Enterprise Deck 8.
Starfleet Career Summary
2362 -- Educational leave for advanced career study, Betazed
2364 -- As lieutenant commander, assigned as ship's counselor,
U.S.S. Enterprise under Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
2370 -- Promoted to commander; passed Bridge Officers'
Exam
2372 -- Transferred with remainder of Picard's senior staff
to Sovereign-class U.S.S. Enterprise
Psychological Profile:
Report of Starfleet Medical, Counselor General With excerpts from
Service File Entries, reflecting update of SD 50900
Although actually of mixed human and Betazed heritage, Troi is
one of many from her planet active in the Starfleet counselor
corps and was ship's counselor for the U.S.S. Enterprise throughout
its service life and now aboard its successor namesake. Troi's
race is known for its inter-species telepathy and its emotional
empathy with most other species whether on board the ship, in
a ship at close proximity or on the planet below. While such a
capacity has heightened her counseling skills, they have also
aided her captain's command mission decisions on several occasions,
including hostile encounters, negotiations, and first-contact
missions. Most notably she recently took part in the temporal
restoration of Cochrane's Phoenix flight and human first contact.
A lifelong interest in Ancient Western stories arose in childhood
when her human father would read them to her and sing at bedtime,
including her favorite "Down in the Valley"; she also recalled
later how she'd check under her bed for "monsters" and carry her
over muddy patches. He died when she was 7, and the grieving she
and Lwaxana shared is also a vivid memory.
Sometime prior to that she had been "genetically bonded" according
to Betazoid custom to Dr. Wyatt Miller, the son of her late father's
best friend. The Millers expected to carry out the arranged marriage
in 2364, but Wyatt realized the woman he'd been imagining was
a Tarellian plague victim and he left to help her people instead.
Unbeknownst to Troi until 2370, she had a sister Kestra six years
her senior who drowned in the nearby lake during a picnic when
Troi was but a newborn infant. In grief and guilt her parents
moved away, and upon Ian's death Lwaxana deleted all mention of
Kestra in personal logs. Though exasperated at times by the bawdy
Lwaxana, she gained new insight with that revelation, which added
new meaning to her mother's lifelong and oft-detested nickname
"little one" and came while relieving Lwaxana's metaconscious
trauma. Among her childhood keepsakes, not recovered from storage
until 2368, are a doll, a small teddy bear, necklaces, and two
books; she'd once had a Betazoid kitten as a pet, but it never
got along with her mother.
Following Academy graduation she returned to her homeworld for
advanced psychology studies at the University there, where she
befriended the troubled Tam Elbrun during his treatments for stress.
It was also during this period when she met and enjoyed a deep
romance with her "imzadi," Starfleet Lieutenant William Riker.
Aside from her intended mate Wyatt Miller, Riker is the only other
person she felt had the capacity to share full telepathic contact.
They had planned to reunite six months after he left Betazed for
the U.S.S. Potemkin in 2362, but his rapid career rise negated
that and she eventually cooled to him. Despite latent feelings
and her occasional use of the "imzadi" endearment, their professional
life has remained largely platonic yet warm since their surprise
reunion on the U.S.S. Enterprise two years later.
Troi has shown no signs of negative reaction to Riker's occasional
attractions to other women, including both Ensign Ro and the J'naii
renegade Soren, and is even touched that he still confides in
her. Even so, the appearance of the "old" U.S.S. Potemkin-era
Riker in the form of Thomas easily swept her off her feet.
Romantic attractions of her own have included genetically bred
Genome Colony leader Aaron Conner, the deaf mediator Riva, a brief
dating relationship with fellow officer Worf, and an intense fling
with negotiator Devinoni Ral. Owing to concern about her lack
of command expertise during a crisis stint as senior bridge officer
on the U.S.S. Enterprise, she successfully completed the Starfleet
bridge command exam in 2370. It is this training which contributed
to the successful restoration of Cochrane's pioneer flight, when
she helped minimize 24th century involvement and thus potential
timeline contamination by acting as ground flight controller when
the original crew was killed by time-traveling Borg.
She is also trained in languages and linguistics, often making
her a valued first contact team member. Again, it was her skills
in interpersonal contact which helped Cochrane adjust to her comrades'
true story when trying to restart the known timeline after Borg
temporal sabotage in 2373. During her original Enterprise posting
she had preferred wearing non-regulation clothing as a calming
influence on those about her, but following temporary commander
Jellico's order to don a uniform in 2369 she began to make it
habit.
Troi has been pregnant once, though the 2365 incident involved
a speeded-up cycle brought on by an alien wishing merely to live
the experience. The boy, whom she named after her father, resumed
its normal noncorporeal form when his presence proved harmful
to unstable cargo aboard and Troi felt the loss deeply. She ran
the gamut of emotions from anger to fear to helplessness when
deprived of her empathic ability by nonsentient two-dimensional
lifeforms two years later, becoming the so-called "patient from
hell." Her career and Betazoid empathy have put Troi at risk during
her career many times. She was abducted in a forced shuttlecraft
crash in 2364 by the malevolent entity Armus on Vagra II, then
barely survived abduction and surgical alternation in 2369 to
pass as a Romulan Tal Shiar agent aboard a warship to help that
Empire's underground smuggle out two high-ranking defectors. And
a year later she nearly committed suicide in the nacelle plasma
stream when reacting to an empathic echo left by a murderous original
builder of the Enterprise. Troi has also been telepathically assaulted
by a troubled Ullian archivist, Jev, and later nearly died from
hyperaging as the emotional dumping ground of the Lumerian envoy
Ves Alkar.
Dessert is her favorite part of a meal, and one of her greatest
favorites and weaknesses is chocolate. Paraphrasing Terran philosopher-humorist
Will Rogers, she says "she never a chocolate she didn't like"
- unless it might be the replicated variety; a Ktarian chocolate
puff is her very favorite. She's also part of the officers' poker
circle, and once beat Data at tri-dimensional chess.
PERSONAL ADDENDUM, Capt. J.L. Picard SD 50900 Update
For the record, I commend Counselor Troi for her efforts above
and beyond the call of duty in a crisis in persuading 21st century
warp pioneer Zefram Cochran to continue his historic flight despite
Borg interference. As an ongoing advocate of historical education
for all, I would suggest a little more research in the realm of
pre-syntheholic beverages.
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