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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.
Biography information from startrek.com
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