55 Participated in my thirdfinal Thanksgiving Giveaway of 2016 ! Really nice and made sure they were doing the right thing . ivx 0 umfqsh 75 c 9 c 740 <| sep |> No , I like your fierce style <| sep |> She ' s on board as a mental health professional to provide services to the crew , staff , and families . Realistically a ship that size would require more than just one counselor . Her ability as an empathy is handy but not why she ' s on board . Other ships likely have counselors from other species . Unfortunately Troi suffers from just bad writing due to an understandable lack of knowledge of what counselors do and how they actually work . I ' m a counselor , and when I see Troi I imagine it ' s similar to how doctors and lawyers feel when they watch like pretty much every show on TV . Her presence on the bridge is tied to her empathic abilities however , and you ' re right she doesn ' t offer much that people don ' t already know this is because humans are generally pretty good at reading emotions of others based on facial features . Notice how Troi is able to read very alien speciesincorporeal bodies too , which a human crew may not be able to , I doubt other ships counselors on other ships come to the bridge . They could have really utilized her character more by focusing on actual sessions with crew aside from those horrendous sessions with Barclay , and as an essential part of dealing with nonhumanoid beings .