Lxwana got straight to it.

"Deanna, Jim and I are having troubles."

Deanna shook her head.

"Troubles? Mother, we can hear you two through the sound dampeners."

"Not those kind of troubles. I mean I can't read him."

"I can't figure Will sometimes, either."

"No, no. I mean all those melds he's done. He can choose not to have his thoughts read. I'm in a quandary."

"So, you never know what Captain James T. Kirk is going to do next, is that it?"

"Exactly. Whatever will I do?"

Deanna merely chuckled at her mother's plight.

"Mother--Join The Galactic Club!"