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Man Of The People

The freighter an mediator is travelling on is attacked. This mediator is to settle a peace between two people on the same world who are fighting and threatening Federation shipping routes. This mediator, it is discovered, uses people to "dump" his unwanted emotions onto so that he may remain unincumbered. After his current "receptacle" dies he goes for Deanna and establishes a link with her. She starts showing unusual behaviour and is ageing at an incredible speed. She is taken to sickbay and worried, Dr Crusher does an autopsy on the previous "receptacle" and finds out all about what is happening to their bodies, a side effect of having all those emotions dumped on them. Picard tries to persuade him to stop using her but he refuses. The peace is succesfully attained and Crusher kills Troi so the mediator would break his link with her. He attempts to form a link with her, but Troi is resussitated at a vulnerable point in the linkage and the mediator dies.

The Next Generation, seizoen 6