Deanna Troi quotes from Star Trek: The Next Generation

Deanna

Captain. do what you must to protect the ship. But know this, I am going to have this baby.

Troi

Have you dreamed about scissors recently?

Deanna Troi

The thanks should go to N'Vek. He sacrificed himself to save them - and me.

Jean-Luc Picard

Unless it's followed by?

Deanna Troi

The double bars indicate an elongated S sound.

Jean-Luc Picard

And the inverted T means to hold the Z.

Deanna Troi

Unless?

Jean-Luc Picard

Unless it's followed by three wavy lines, in which case the Z becomes a B.

Deanna Troi

Exactly.

Jean-Luc Picard

What a language.

Deanna Troi

But you spell 'knife' with a K.

Jean-Luc Picard

I spell 'knife' with an N.

Data

You are aware, Counselor, that the holodeck can be programmed to recreate an oceanic environment?

Deanna Troi

Data, it's just not the same. Have you ever gone for a real moonlight swim?

Data

One can swim in moonlight?

Troi

My mother is beginning a physiological phase. It's one that all Betazoid women must deal with as they enter mid-life.

Riker

Yes, it's something Troi warned me about when we first started to see each other. A Betazoid woman, when she goes through this phase, quadruples her sex drive.

Troi

It seems, Captain, that you are the early favorite. (to become her mother's husband)

Riker

Congratulations, sir!

Picard

I'm not amused, Number One.

Troi

You’re upset.

K’Ehleyr

Your finely honed Betazoid sense tell you that?

Troi

Well… that and the table.

Picard

Jeremy, Wesley's father died on a Starfleet mission, when he was younger than you are.

Troi

Wes, your mother told me you were finding it difficult to talk to Jeremy. Why is that?

Wesley Crusher

I don't know. I just don't want to think about it any more. All this has reminded me so much of that day.

Picard

The day I told you your father had been killed. As I recall, Wesley, you took it very well.

Wesley Crusher

My parents had told me about the dangers of Starfleet missions. I knew it could happen.

Picard

So, you were prepared?

Wesley Crusher

No! I wasn't prepared at all. How can anyone be prepared to hear that a parent is never coming home again? I tried to be what everyone expected of me. Brave and mature.

Picard

Wesley, are you saying you didn't want anybody to see what you were really feeling? [Wesley nods] What were you really feeling?

Wesley Crusher

Like... somebody had licked me in the head.

Picard

"Somebody?"

Troi

Go on. You've wanted to tell him for a long time.

Wesley Crusher

I was angry at you.

Picard

Why me? Why were you angry at me, Wesley? Were you angry at me because I was the one who told you your father was dead?

Wesley Crusher

No.

Picard

Then, why?

Wesley Crusher

Because you led the mission. You came home, and my father didn't.

Troi

How long were you angry with the captain, Wes?

Wesley Crusher

For a long time. But not any more.

Q

And since I was given only a fraction of a second to mull, I chose this, and asked them to bring me here.

Deanna Troi

Why?

Q

Because in all the universe, you are the closest thing I have to a friend, Jean-Luc.

Troi

Come in.

Troi

Hello, Lal. How are you?

Troi. Admiral. Admiral. An admiral from Starfleet has come to take me away, Troi. I am scared.

I feel it. How is this possible?

Troi

I don't know.

This is what it means to feel. This is what it means to feel.

Troi

How do you feel?

Picard

Almost human...with just a bit of a headache.

Riker

How much do you remember?

Deanna Troi

Is this how you handle all of your personnel problems?

William Riker

Sure. You'd be surprised how far a hug goes with Geordi, or Worf.

Deanna Troi

Ultimately Jenna will care for you for who you are, not what you imitate out of a book.

Data

My programming may be inadequate to the task.

Deanna Troi

The bartender is an artificial lifeform.

Data

Can I get you something? A beverage?