“Dark Page”
Written by Hilary J. Bader
Directed by Les Landau
Season 7, Episode 7
Production episode 40276-259
Original air date: November 1, 1993
Stardate: 47254.1
Captain’s Log: The Enterprise is hosting a delegation of Cairn, a telepathic species that never developed speech. They are being trained in how to speak verbally by Lwaxana Troi. Her star pupil is a girl named Hedril (who gets to compare enhancement devices with La Forge; she has a vocal enhancer, he has a VISOR). At one point, looking at Hedril causes Lwaxana distress, but she fobs it off as being tired.
When Troi arrives, Lwaxana immediately introduces her to Maques, with whom she is trying to set her daughter up. (Maques’s wife, Hedril’s mother, has died.) The next morning, the inevitable argument between mother and daughter over the former’s endless attempts to matchmake the latter modulates into concern as Lwaxana once again looks distressed. But once again, she fobs it off.
[I make her sad.]