Although Marina Sirtis didn’t wear any prosthetic space alien makeup in Star Trek: The Next Generation, any of the feature films, or Picard, the truth is, like Spock before her, the character of Deanna Troi was not entirely human. The dark contact lenses on Troi’s eyes, and her mother, Lwaxana Troi (Majel Barrett Roddenberry), were a hint, but the empathic and sometimes, telepathic powers of the alien species known as the Betazoids have been Star Trek legend for nearly 40 years since the debut of The Next Generation.
And now, in the second episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, the abilities and nature of the Betazoid people have suddenly been expanded in a big way.
