When two powerful rival families of the spacefaring merchant race known as the Tizarin should be joined through marriage, theU.S.S. Business™ is chosen as the website for the marriage. Though Captain Picard can be pleased with the happy duty, his enjoyment is cut short by the appearance of the Federation delegate from Betazed: Lwaxana Troi — the mom of ship’s counsellor, Deanna Troi.

Despite Lwaxana Troi’s intimate overtures toward the captain, the special event seems to go smoothly until the situation is additional complicated by the arrival of the notorious and everything powerful being known as Q — that has arrive to examine and problem the human concept of love. Suddenly, the festivities are in turmoil, the powerful Tizarin households are on the verge of war, and Lwaxana Troi is set to instruct Q a lesson in like that he will never forget…