Ménage à Troi
| "Ménage à Troi" | |
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| Star Trek: The Next Generation episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 24 |
| Directed by | Robert Legato |
| Written by |
Fred Bronson Susan Sackett |
| Featured music | Ron Jones |
| Production code | 172 |
| Original air date | June 10, 1990 |
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"Ménage à Troi" is the 24th episode of the third season of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the 72nd episode of the series overall.
Commander Riker, Counselor Troi and Ambassador Lwaxana Troi are kidnapped by Ferengi.
At a reception aboard the Federation starship Enterprise following a trade conference on Betazed, Counselor Deanna Troi argues with her mother, Lwaxana Troi, about her insistence that Deanna get married and raise a family. At the same party, Lwaxana is approached by the Ferengi Daimon Tog of the ship Krayton, who is interested in Lwaxana in a sexual way, but also explains he would like Lwaxana to use her telepathy to help him make business. Lwaxana rejects him flatly and later remarks that she would rather eat Orion Wing Slugs than date Tog.
Afterwards, at the urging of Captain Picard, Commander Riker and his one-time flame, Deanna, decide to take a quick shore leave on Betazed while the Enterprise heads out on a routine mission studying a nebula. Lwaxana tracks down her daughter and Riker, with intent to encourage a renewed romance between the couple. She is just getting started when Daimon Tog arrives stating that he has come for Lwaxana. When he is again rebuffed by Lwaxana, Tog has himself and the others transported aboard the Krayton, leaving a confused Mr. Homn to wonder where his employer has gone.
The three awaken in a cell aboard the Krayton. Tog then has Deanna and Lwaxana beamed into the lab of Farek, a Ferengi doctor who hopes to study Lwaxana's telepathy using mind probes. In the process of transporting them he leaves the women's clothing behind, saying that women are not worthy enough to wear clothes. Lwaxana pretends to be interested in Tog, and gains Deanna's return to the cell with Riker by agreeing to discuss with Tog a proposal to use her telepathic abilities in trade negotiations.
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