As
one of the most colorful figures in Federation diplomacy, the Betazoid
ambassador Lwaxana Troi
has
led a life of both flamboyance and tragedy. Natively, she
is a daughter of Betazed's Fifth House,
holder
of the sacred Chalice of Rixx and heir
to the Holy Rings of Betazed. Lwaxana's life has been
marked
by a succession of romances and marriages,
her first being to a good friend of fellow Betazoid
diplomat
Rheittan Grax; she actually bore a son with the latest, to the Tavnian
Jeyal, but faked a
second
lover to escape the marriage and the Tavnian child-rearing custom
of separation of genders.
By
far it was her marriage to human Starfleet Lt. Comdr. Ian Andrew
Troi in 2328 that was most
rewarding
and stable, with the birth of a daughter Kestra
a year later and a second, Deanna, in 2336.
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 2343, 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 2364
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 2365
-- 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 2365,
and
even helped outwit the lustful Ferengi, DaiMon Tog, who kidnapped
her, Deanna and Riker in 2366.
She
had a sister whom she outlived, and was served much of her later
lifetime by a mostly mute servant,
Mr.
Homn. He was unknown to Deanna, who was
more familiar with his predecessor Mr. Xelo, who was
dismissed
for his misplaced flirtations with
Lwaxana. |