By far it was her marriage to human Starfleet Lt. Ian Andrew Troi in that was most rewarding and stable, with the birth of a daughter Kestra a year later and a second, Deanna , in But Kestra accidentally drowned later that year, and Lwaxana's grief drove her to delete all memory of her from her personal writings and then from her Betazed metaconscious as well.
When her husband died in , Lwaxana took on a wild, flirtatious lifestyle that masked her pain while increasingly annoying and isolating her daughter, whom she also over-protected. Before Ian's death, the parents had Deanna genetically bonded in the Betazoid arranged marriage process to a human boy Wyatt Miller , but a reunion among the families in found her feuding with Mrs.
Miller well before the wedding was called off. To her adult daughter's eternal embarrassment, Lwaxana has flirted and chased after Deanna's commander and one-time lover, Jean-Luc Picard and Wil Riker -- especially during her time of quadrupled sex drive known as the Phase in -- but they were only two of her failed romances. Aside from falling for a holographic bartender, some of her interests over the years included Kaelon IV scientist Dr.
Timicin , a sight-unseen engagement to Minister Campio of Kostolain, security chief Odo at DS9, and another one that led her on the rebound to Jeyal. Although later affairs were piqued by mutual interest, she admitted that some were prompted by a fear of aging and loneliness.
To Lwaxana's credit, she did expose an Antedian terrorist bombing while an ambassador to the Pacifica Conference in , and even helped outwit the lustful Ferengi, DaiMon Tog , who kidnapped her, Deanna and Riker in Deanna warns those around her that Lwaxana is going through Betazoid menopause, which is accompanied by a quadrupling of her already powerful sex drive. Even still, the powerful telepath offhandedly saves the day when she casually notes that the supposed Antedean delegation who have come to petition their inclusion in Starfleet are actually terrorists, sent to blow up the conference.
Lwaxana posits this revelation as an aside to the real story here; her personal saga. From her initial appearances, we see Lwaxana as mother and diplomat, but she comes into her Space Aunt persona perfectly in season five of TNG, where she steps into that role for little lost Alexander Rozhenko, son of Worf. Meddling a bit with family therapy good aunt, bad mom , Lwaxana intercedes upon realizing that Alex is unhappy, and does what aunts always do best: staging an escape into whimsy and absurdity.
Here, Lwaxana encourages the son of a stoic Klingon to laugh and cavort and bathe in deep, sticky mud. The end of the episode sees her ruin her own nuptials in the nude, and triumph over those who would otherwise be sticks in the mud when both Worf and daughter Deanna join her in the mud together. In the first season of Deep Space Nine , Lwaxana flirts with Odo enough to make his liquid skin crawl, but circumstances push the two toward friendship.
Stuck in a turbolift, they trade painful stories about their lives and the famously guarded Odo opens up to his new Space Aunt in ways no one would have expected.
The famously vain Mrs. Troi shows him her vulnerability, removing her wig and admitting her own frailty. They fall apart together, safe in one another as Odo dissolves into his liquid state and she holds him in the folds of her fabulous dress. This arrangement Lwaxana shares with both Alexander and Odo is a painfully familiar one to many of us.
Many of us grew up in a family where we had no allies, or maybe just one. Maybe there was one aunt who was sort of odd, maybe she was the one who got out of your small backward town, or just belonged to a slightly more progressive church.
She was the one who would help you dye your hair or drive you to Planned Parenthood. The moments when you melted into her skirt and slipped into the proverbial mud with her came later.
She is a role model of flashy self-importance, liberated sexuality, a representative of her people, and a proponent of interspecies coupling. Space Aunt Lwaxana is the ultimate ally; the one who is always ready to accept who you are and fight for your right to be it. As well as Deanna and Kestra, Lwaxana has a son by a Tavnian named Jeyal - she was briefly married to Odo in order to void Jeyal's claim to the child.
Star Trek original novels have suggested that her son is called Barin, but this has never been substantiated on screen. She has a tendency to frequently remind people of this fact, especially in situations where she feels slighted.
Lwaxana is frequently accompanied by her ubiquitous valet, Mr. List of Star Trek characters. Categories : Betazoid characters. Lwaxana Troi From Academic Kids.
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