Imzadi

Imzadi is a non-canon Star Trek novel by Peter David, primarily exploring William Riker's assignment to Betazed and his early relationship with Deanna Troi.

Imzadi has a complex structure, involving time travel through the Guardian of Forever, but a straightforward plot of love and rescue. The text expands on the meaning of Imzadi, when Troi explains that Imzadi is a Betazoid word for "the first," (imzadi means "my beloved", not "the first") although not necessarily first sexual partner -- as Deanna puts it to Will, she is "the first to ever touch your soul." The word, and Troi's history with Riker, had been introduced in the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint".