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Majel Barrett, who played nurse Christine Chapel in the original
Star Trek series, returned to the screen in "Haven" as Lwaxana Troi, mother of Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) and (as someone once put it) the "Auntie Mame of the galaxy." The story concerns Deanna's reluctant agreement to participate in a marriage arranged by her late father. She dutifully meets her betrothed, a doctor named Wyatt (Rob Knepper), who turns out to be a good person baffled as to why Deanna doesn't look like the blonde he has seen in visions since childhood. An obligatory action subplot finds the
Enterprise imperiled by the last survivors of a biological war. But the real entertainment here comes from the brassy Lwaxana's huge personality, her endless flirtations with a flustered Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart), and her in-fighting with Wyatt's family. Barrett (Mrs. Roddenberry in real life) subsequently made annual visits to
TNG as Lwaxana, but this episode almost didn't happen until writer Tracy Tormé (son of Mel) rescued and fixed an all-but-abandoned story treatment.
--Tom Keogh
From the Back Cover
The
Enterprise is traveling toward the idyllic planet of Haven when Counselor Troi (Marina Sirtis) learns she must enter into a marriage arranged by her late father. Honoring Betazoid customs, Troi dutifully prepares to marry Wyatt, a young doctor.
When Wyatt and his parents beam on board to meet Troi and her mother, family feuds erupt, threatening the wedding plans and straining relations between Troi and Riker.
But more than the marriage is imperiled when the Tarellian spaceship carrying a deadly virus and the last survivors of a biological war plots a direct course for the Starship Enterprise.
