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.
Events in This Arc
In Sickbay Picard learns the shuttle — and the terrified duplicate inside — are temporal refugees displaced six hours forward. Pulaski rouses P2, who awakens a mute, stuttering embodiment of …
In Sickbay Pulaski delivers a cold, clinical diagnosis: the duplicate Picard's physiology is 're‑syncing' with the timeline — when the two times intersect the body will normalize and there will …
In Sickbay Picard confronts the living echo of his future: P2 is present but unreachable, trapped in nightmarish images that make him perceive Picard not as a person but as …