Deanna Troi's empathic burden and psychic overload: Troi's role as empathic interpreter becomes a liability when she is overwhelmed by Picard Two's raw, trapped terror—threatening her ability to advise command and exposing the cost of psychic intimacy.

Deanna Troi's empathic burden and psychic overload: Troi's role as empathic interpreter becomes a liability when she is overwhelmed by Picard Two's raw, trapped terror—threatening her ability to advise command and exposing the cost of psychic intimacy.