Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Cost of Living (1992)

Marina Sirtis: Counselor Deanna Troi

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• Counselor Troi : [to Alexander]  One day, you're going to be glad your father cared enough about you to insist on rules. It may be hard to imagine right now, but eventually, most children come to appreciate their parents.

  [Worf and Alexander leave] 

  Commander William T. Riker : [over intercom]  Riker to Counselor Troi - your mother's just come aboard.

  Counselor Troi : [to herself]  On the other hand...

• Counselor Troi : What would you like your father to promise, Alexander?

  Alexander Rozhenko : No yelling.

  Lieutenant Worf : I DO N... - I do not yell.

• Counselor Troi : Mother, I'm trying to help the boy learn the value of responsibility. You're not helping by giving him a lot of mixed messages.

  Lwaxana Troi : I exposed you to all sorts of mixed messages when you were that age. You still turned out deadly dull. What are you so worried about?

  Counselor Troi : Among other things, his relationship with his father.

  Lwaxana Troi : Oh!

  Counselor Troi : No more holodeck, Mother.

  Lwaxana Troi : Oh...

  Counselor Troi : Please. Anyway, why aren't you all absorbed in your wedding plans? It's only three days away.

  Lwaxana Troi : I'm letting Mr. Homn handle all the mundane details. He knows my tastes.

  Counselor Troi : Mother...

  Lwaxana Troi : Deanna, there is absolutely nothing to do, you nosy little girl. Campio's already sent me his mother's wedding gown, which Mr. Homn is now altering for me. Outside of that, there really isn't anything else that I...

  Counselor Troi : Wedding gown? Mother, stop. You're telling me you're not going to be naked at your own wedding?

  Lwaxana Troi : Campio is from a different planet with different traditions. He would not approve of a traditional Betazoid wedding, so I am happily adapting. Now, it's as simple as that, and I need some tea.

  Counselor Troi : I can't believe I'm hearing this from the heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed, holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx.

  Lwaxana Troi : Oh! Oh, why can't I ever work this replicator?

  Counselor Troi : Mother, I think it's time to talk about this mysterious marriage to a man you've never met.

  Lwaxana Troi : Computer, some Jestral tea, please.

  [turns from replicator to Deanna] 

  Lwaxana Troi : Oh, anyway, why shouldn't I get married if I choose to? You make everything into such a mystery. There is no mystery, Deanna,

  [turns to get tea] 

  Lwaxana Troi : except about this... this Petrokian sausage. The tea - all I wanted was a cup of tea.

  [takes sausage out of cup] 

  Lwaxana Troi : Oh, dear, I think you're replicator's having a... a nervous collapse. Oh...

  [takes a drink of tea] 

• [Worf and Alexander enter to ask for Deanna's help in forming their father-son contract] 

  Counselor Troi : Alexander, this is my mother.

  Lwaxana Troi : Alexander? What a wonderful name! You know, I once knew a tall, handsome warrior named Alexander. Oh, he utterly adored me and we went everywhere - simply everywhere. Have you been anywhere y... Contract? What contract?

  Counselor Troi : Between father and son, a fair and balanced way to achieve a mutual sense of order.

  Lwaxana Troi : [to Alexander]  Well, how ghastly for you.

  [to Worf] 

  Lwaxana Troi : And you are doing this to your own child, Mr. Woof?

  Counselor Troi : Mother!

  Lieutenant Worf : It is "Worf," madam.

  Lwaxana Troi : Contracts are usually between people who don't really trust one another. A child who is trusted becomes worthy of that trust.