Star Trek: The Next Generation - Dark Page (Full Frame)

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The Enterprise welcomes a delegation of the Cairn, a telepathic species that has no concept of spoken language. Troi's (Marina Sirtis) Betazoid mother, Lwaxana (Majel Barrett), serves as their interpreter and immediately tries to spark a romance between her daughter and Maques (Norman Large), the visiting group's senior diplomat. When Lwaxana begins to behave erratically, Dr. Crusher (Gates McFadden) runs some tests and orders her to refrain from using her telepathic abilities. Predictably, Lwaxana defies her orders and soon afterward experiences a psychic collapse. Maques tells Troi that he sensed a dark place in Lwaxana's metaconscious mind, and in a desperate attempt to save her, he provides Troi with a telepathic bridge into the darkest reaches of her mother's mind.