A holodeck figure modelled on Counsellor Troi, created by Reginald Barclay as a robed and adoring spirit of empathy in one of his private fantasy programmes.
The Goddess of Empathy is a holographic character who appears in the third-season episode Hollow Pursuits, set in 2366. She is played by Marina Sirtis.
Barclay, painfully shy and struggling in engineering, retreats to the holodeck and peoples his programmes with altered versions of his shipmates. Picard, Data and La Forge become swaggering musketeers, Riker a shrunken buffoon, and Troi a serene goddess in flowing robes who offers him the affection the real crew does not.
When Riker, La Forge and Troi enter the programme to find him, the counsellor at first urges tolerance of a harmless outlet. Her calm deserts her when she comes face to face with her own likeness, and she has to be restrained by Riker, to his obvious amusement.