2362 -- Educational leave for advanced career study, Betazed

 2364 -- As lieutenant commander, assigned as ship's counselor, U.S.S. Enterprise under Capt. Jean-Luc Picard

 2370 -- Promoted to commander; passed Bridge Officers' Exam

 2372 -- Transferred with remainder of Picard's senior staff to Sovereign-class U.S.S. Enterprise

 Psychological Profile: Report of Starfleet Medical, Counselor General With excerpts from Service File Entries,
 reflecting update of SD 50900

 Although actually of mixed human and Betazed heritage, Troi is one of many from her planet active in the Starfleet counselor
 corps and was ship's counselor for the U.S.S. Enterprise throughout its service life and now aboard its successor
 namesake. Troi's race is known for its inter-species telepathy and its emotional empathy with most other species whether
 on board the ship, in a ship at close proximity or on the planet below. While such a capacity has heightened her counseling
 skills, they have also aided her captain's command mission decisions on several occasions, including hostile encounters,
 negotiations, and first-contact missions. Most notably she recently took part in the temporal restoration of Cochrane's
 Phoenix flight and human first contact.

 A lifelong interest in Ancient Western stories arose in childhood when her human father would read them to her and sing at
 bedtime, including her favorite "Down in the Valley"; she also recalled later how she'd check under her bed for "monsters"
 and carry her over muddy patches. He died when she was 7, and the grieving she and Lwaxana shared is also a vivid
 memory.

 Sometime prior to that she had been "genetically bonded" according to Betazoid custom to Dr. Wyatt Miller, the son of her
 late father's best friend. The Millers expected to carry out the arranged marriage in 2364, but Wyatt realized the woman he'd
 been imagining was a Tarellian plague victim and he left to help her people instead.

 Unbeknownst to Troi until 2370, she had a sister Kestra six years her senior who drowned in the nearby lake during a picnic
 when Troi was but a newborn infant. In grief and guilt her parents moved away, and upon Ian's death Lwaxana deleted all
 mention of Kestra in personal logs. Though exasperated at times by the bawdy Lwaxana, she gained new insight with that
 revelation, which added new meaning to her mother's lifelong and oft-detested nickname "little one" and came while relieving
 Lwaxana's metaconscious trauma. Among her childhood keepsakes, not recovered from storage until 2368, are a doll, a
 small teddy bear, necklaces, and two books; she'd once had a Betazoid kitten as a pet, but it never got along with her
 mother.

 Following Academy graduation she returned to her homeworld for advanced psychology studies at the University there,
 where she befriended the troubled Tam Elbrun during his treatments for stress.

 It was also during this period when she met and enjoyed a deep romance with her "imzadi," Starfleet Lieutenant William
 Riker. Aside from her intended mate Wyatt Miller, Riker is the only other person she felt had the capacity to share full
 telepathic contact. They had planned to reunite six months after he left Betazed for the U.S.S. Potemkin in 2362, but his
 rapid career rise negated that and she eventually cooled to him. Despite latent feelings and her occasional use of the
 "imzadi" endearment, their professional life has remained largely platonic yet warm since their surprise reunion on the
 U.S.S. Enterprise two years later.

 Troi has shown no signs of negative reaction to Riker's occasional attractions to other women, including both Ensign Ro and
 the J'naii renegade Soren, and is even touched that he still confides in her. Even so, the appearance of the "old" U.S.S.
 Potemkin-era Riker in the form of Thomas easily swept her off her feet.

 Romantic attractions of her own have included genetically bred Genome Colony leader Aaron Conner, the deaf mediator
 Riva, a brief dating relationship with fellow officer Worf, and an intense fling with negotiator Devinoni Ral.

 Owing to concern about her lack of command expertise during a crisis stint as senior bridge officer on the U.S.S. Enterprise,
 she successfully completed the Starfleet bridge command exam in 2370. It is this training which contributed to the
 successful restoration of Cochrane's pioneer flight, when she helped minimize 24th century involvement and thus potential
 timeline contamination by acting as ground flight controller when the original crew was killed by time-traveling Borg.

 She is also trained in languages and linguistics, often making her a valued first contact team member. Again, it was her
 skills in interpersonal contact which helped Cochrane adjust to her comrades' true story when trying to restart the known
 timeline after Borg temporal sabotage in 2373. During her original Enterprise posting she had preferred wearing
 non-regulation clothing as a calming influence on those about her, but following temporary commander Jellico's order to don
 a uniform in 2369 she began to make it habit.

 Troi has been pregnant once, though the 2365 incident involved a speeded-up cycle brought on by an alien wishing merely to
 live the experience. The boy, whom she named after her father, resumed its normal noncorporeal form when his presence
 proved harmful to unstable cargo aboard and Troi felt the loss deeply.

 She ran the gamut of emotions from anger to fear to helplessness when deprived of her empathic ability by nonsentient
 two-dimensional lifeforms two years later, becoming the so-called "patient from hell."

 Her career and Betazoid empathy have put Troi at risk during her career many times. She was abducted in a forced
 shuttlecraft crash in 2364 by the malevolent entity Armus on Vagra II, then barely survived abduction and surgical alternation
 in 2369 to pass as a Romulan Tal Shiar agent aboard a warship to help that Empire's underground smuggle out two
 high-ranking defectors. And a year later she nearly committed suicide in the nacelle plasma stream when reacting to an
 empathic echo left by a murderous original builder of the Enterprise. Troi has also been telepathically assaulted by a
 troubled Ullian archivist, Jev, and later nearly died from hyperaging as the emotional dumping ground of the Lumerian envoy
 Ves Alkar.

 Dessert is her favorite part of a meal, and one of her greatest favorites and weaknesses is chocolate. Paraphrasing Terran
 philosopher-humorist Will Rogers, she says "she never a chocolate she didn't like" - unless it might be the replicated variety;
 a Ktarian chocolate puff is her very favorite. She's also part of the officers' poker circle, and once beat Data at tri-dimensional
 chess.

 PERSONAL ADDENDUM, Capt. J.L. Picard SD 50900 Update

 For the record, I commend Counselor Troi for her efforts above and beyond the call of duty in a crisis in persuading 21st
 century warp pioneer Zefram Cochran to continue his historic flight despite Borg interference. As an ongoing advocate of
 historical education for all, I would suggest a little more research in the realm of pre-syntheholic beverages.