Existem alguns casos em que suas habilidades como empatia se revelam inestimáveis
Em TNG: Faces do Inimigo , a habilidade empática de Troi a ajuda a instantaneamente determine que o navio Romulano está caminhando em uma armadilha. Como resultado, ela destruiu o cargueiro e protegeu sua "carga", um desertor extremamente valioso.
TROI: (softly) He's lying. They have no intention of keeping their word.
N'VEK: Are you certain?
TROI: Yes.
Em TNG: Shades of Grey , Troi usa seus poderes para determinar o estado emocional de Riker. Isso permite que Pulaski estimule apenas as memórias que provocam um efeito de amortecimento no organismo
PULASKI: The growth rate has definitely slowed. What is he feeling? Can you tell?
TROI: Sadness.
PULASKI: Just the opposite of before -- and it's having the opposite effect on the infection.
e no filme TNG: Nemesis , ela usa suas habilidades empáticas para detectar a localização da Cimitarra, sem dúvida salvando a Terra e toda a maldita Federação
DEANNA: Captain -- I might have a way to find them.
PICARD: Counselor?
DEANNA: The one thing he may have forgotten in the course of battle: me.
PICARD: Make it so.
She quickly goes to Worf at tactical.
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Deanna concentrates furiously, eyes closed. She stands with Worf, her hand slowly moving his over the photon torpedo targeting display.
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Deanna continues to move Worf's hand over the targeting display. She is sweating, panting for breath, concentrating fiercely.
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Her eyes snap open --
DEANNA: NOW!
Worf instantly fires a full volley of photon torpedoes.
A full spread of photon torpedoes shoot through space. And connect! A series of devastating impacts -- and the Scimitar's cloak fails!