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* PoorCommunicationKills: Maques catches on to Lwaxana's RepressedMemories pretty quickly, but his explanation of what he saw in her mind is so vague that Troi dismisses it as a simple matter of Lwaxana deliberately shielding certain thoughts from him (this isn't helped by the language barriers; he's not used to conveying things through words in general). After she falls into a coma, he uses his race's brand of telepathy to convey his meaning and she gains a better understanding of the issue.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Maques catches on to Lwaxana's RepressedMemories pretty quickly, but his explanation of what he saw in her mind is so vague that Troi dismisses it as a simple matter believes he's talking about the concept of Lwaxana deliberately shielding certain thoughts from him for privacy's sake (this isn't helped by the language barriers; he's not used to conveying things through words in general). After she falls into a coma, he uses his race's brand of telepathy to convey his meaning and she gains a better understanding of the issue.
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* DarkSecret: Lwaxana is revealed to have been hiding one for nearly Deanna's entire life.
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* ShoutOut: The effect of a child drowning in a lake with their oblivious parents nearby was taken from ''Film/TheMarryingKind''.
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* HeroicBSOD: Lwaxanna goes through this after the death of her first daughter, to the point of deleting all evidence of her existence (as seen in UnPerson below), including the seven years of her own diaries during that point in her life. In fact, Lwaxanna never truly got over the death, instead just burying it deeply into her metaconscious (basically the Betazed subconscious) mind.
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* AdultFear: Watching your child drown, and not being able to do a thing to save her, all because of an accident. Every parent's nightmare.
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Crusher's diagnosis is not good; Lwaxana has fallen into a coma, as though her brain had suddenly shut down, save for her Betazoid telepathic node, and with no indication as to a possible cause. Maques, however, has a clue; that her mind has a "dark place". He couldn't put the idea into words, since spoken language is a foreign concept to his race, but tries to communicate the idea to Deanna telepathically. The communicative methods between these aliens and Betazoids, however, makes it difficult to completely understand at first. Deanna, however, eventually comes to gain an understanding; there was something afflicting Lwaxana's metaconscious, a Betazoid psychic defense mechanism against trauma. There is no indication, however, as to the exact nature of what is affecting her metaconscious.
Deanna decides to gain a better understanding of what is happening by communicating with her comatose mother through telepathy. Lwaxana's subconcious cries out to Deanna for help,
When the psychic bridge is formed, Deanna finds herself in the corridors of the ''Enterprise'', hearing Lwaxana's pleas for help. Picard approaches her and orders her to sever the connection. Deanna, however, realizes that this is not the real Picard, but her mother's
Deanna's search leads her to one of the telepathic children; Hedril. Lwaxana appears and strides toward Deanna, screaming at her and causing Deanna to snap back to reality.
Deanna asks Hedril if she had any idea as to if Lwaxana was thinking of her. Hedril confides that she believes Lwaxana to be upset with her, but no one knows why. Lwaxana never discussed Hedril, so her connection to her ailment remains unclear, although it is believed she may represent the dark secret
Deanna re-enters Lwaxana's metaconscious in order to get to the bottom of the mystery of what is killing
Finally, Deanna sees the memory that Lwaxana had tried to repress and keep secret from Deanna: unbeknownst to Deanna until now, she had an older sister named Kestra. One day, the Troi family was having a picnic with the family dog. The dog, anxious to go for a swim, slipped from Kestra's grasp. Kestra gave chase, the two falling into a lake and drowning. Lwaxana hadn't noticed until it was too late, and the guilt from having let her daughter die had been weighing her down in the years since. Deanna reassures Lwaxana that Kestra's tragic death was not her fault, and that Lwaxana owed it to Kestra to remember her and to celebrate her life. Deanna suggests Lwaxana talk with the memory of Kestra she had repressed. Lwaxana apologizes to Kestra and holds her in her arms one last time before letting her, and her guilt, go.
Lwaxana recovers from her coma, holding hands with Deanna from their sickbay beds. Mister Homm had kept all of pictures of Kestra safe, in case she wanted to remember. Both mother and daughter become closer together over the loss of the older sister Deanna now knew of, and the celebration of her life.
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* {{Homage}}: To ''Film/TheMarryingKind''.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Pretty much the saddest Lwaxana Troi episode ever.]]
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* {{Retcon}}: Though never actually stated on the show, for most of its run the WordOfGod explanation for why Troi has a different accent than her mother was that it was her father's. That theory is killed when he shows up here sounding just as American as his wife.
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* AdultFear: Watching your child drown, and not being able to do a thing to save her, all because of an accident. Every parent's nightmare.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Lwaxana goes husband-hunting on her daughter's behalf. She is not amused.
* CallBack: To the last episode, in fact. Data mentions his recent studies of dreams and their imagery, referring to the events of "Phantasms."
* IdenticalStranger: The little girl that Lwaxana encounters bears an uncanny resemblance to her hitherto unrevealed first daughter Kestra. This is what triggers Lwaxana's coma.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Lwaxana goes husband-hunting on her daughter's behalf. She is not amused.
* CallBack: To the last episode, in fact. Data mentions his recent studies of dreams and their imagery, referring to the events of "Phantasms."
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* AdultFear: Watching your [[spoiler:your child drown, drown]], and not being able to do a thing to save her, [[spoiler:save her]], all because of an accident. Every parent's nightmare.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Lwaxana goeshusband-hunting husband hunting on her daughter's behalf. She Deanna is not amused.
* CallBack: To the last episode, in fact. Data mentions his recent studies of dreams and their imagery, referring to the events of"Phantasms."
[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E5Phantasms "Phantasms"]].
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* RealitySubtext: This episode aired almost exactly two years after Gene Roddenberry's death. Majel Barrett likely had some grief issues to work through herself.
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* FridgeLogic: Lwaxana deleted seven years of her personal journal because she had a daughter before Troi who drowned in an accident. But how could her journal be the ''only'' record of this? What about Starfleet biographical records? Wouldn't she have childhood friends or family members who knew about it?
** Betazoids are telepathic. Knowing that Lwaxana finds the topic distressing to think about, they probably go out of their way not to bring it up.
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* FridgeLogic: Lwaxana deleted seven years of her personal journal because [[spoiler:she had a daughter before Troi who drowned in an accident]]. But how could her journal be the ''only'' record of this? What about Starfleet biographical records? Wouldn't she have childhood friends or family members who knew about it?
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* FridgeLogic: Lwaxana deleted seven years of her personal journal because [[spoiler:she had a daughter before Troi who drowned in an accident]]. But how could her journal be the ''only'' record of this? What about Starfleet biographical records? Wouldn't she have childhood friends or family members who knew about it?
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: Most of the episode is one.
