1. Deanna Troi is a main character in the science-fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and related TV series and films, portrayed by English actress Marina Sirtis.
27 Facts About Deanna Troi
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Deanna Troi serves as the ship's counselor on USS Enterprise-D.
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Deanna Troi appears in all four Next Generation theatrical films, and made guest appearances on Voyager, Enterprise, Picard and Lower Decks.
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Deanna Troi's parents are Betazoid Ambassador Lwaxana Deanna Troi and deceased human Starfleet officer Lt.
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Deanna Troi serves as the ship's counselor aboard the Starfleet starships USS Enterprise and Enterprise-E under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
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In Star Trek: Nemesis, Deanna Troi has expanded her empathic abilities, as she is able to connect to another psychic and follow that empathic bond to its source.
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Deanna Troi is able to communicate telepathically with her mother and other telepathic Betazoids or races with sufficient aptitude.
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Early in the series, Deanna Troi finds herself working with a former lover, the newly assigned first officer to USS Enterprise, Commander William Riker.
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In later episodes, Deanna Troi has romantic involvements with several others, including a brief relationship with Klingon Starfleet officer Lieutenant Worf.
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Deanna Troi's name is included in the show title "Menage a Troi", which is oriented towards an adventure her mother and she have.
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Deanna Troi is addressed in various ways by fellow officers.
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One of the aliens mentally assaults Deanna Troi and tries to physically assault her in her quarters.
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Deanna Troi is saved by Worf and one of his security teams.
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Deanna Troi eventually is able to turn the tables on the viceroy using the same connection.
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Deanna Troi is an avid connoisseur of chocolate, a fact that is significant in multiple episodes, including one in which she tells Commander Riker how to properly enjoy eating it.
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Deanna Troi is known for ordering chocolate-flavored desserts in Ten-Forward, and her love for desserts is a common point of dialogue in many shows.
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Dream-themed episodes include "Phantasms", where Deanna Troi appears as cake in Data's dream and in "Night Terrors", her dreams help save the ship.
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Deanna Troi had, in total, five readings, all with Gene Roddenberry and other executives.
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Deanna Troi was just about to return home, in debt and jobless, when she received the phone call alerting her that she had the role of Deanna Troi.
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Deanna Troi stated that if it had been an hour later, she would have missed that call and been on her way to England.
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Deanna Troi conceptualised her as having four breasts, before his wife told him this was a bad idea.
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In 2016, Deanna Troi was ranked as the 24th-most important character of Starfleet within the Star Trek universe by Wired.
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In 2019, Deanna Troi was ranked the sixth-sexiest Star Trek character by SyFy.
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Deanna Troi appears in the Star Trek: Picard season 1 episode "Nepenthe", set twenty years after Nemesis where she is married to Riker and they have two children, Thad and Kestra.
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Deanna Troi appears in a recurring capacity in the first half of season 3, which include flashbacks to her motherhood.
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Deanna Troi is later revealed to have been abducted by the antagonists of the season, and is reunited with Riker, who had fallen into an existential crisis after Thad's death and needed to temporarily separate from her to get outside help from Picard.
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Deanna Troi appears in the first-season finale of the animated Star Trek: Lower Decks, set a year after the events of Nemesis.