When his prime vessel [[Sev Maylor]] died, who he said was his mother, but was really a thirty-year-old woman, he turned to [[Deanna Troi]] who he used as his new receptacle to transfer his negative emotions to.
Mais pour garder l'esprit clair lors des pourparlers, il utilisait l'empathie, se débarrassant de ses mauvais sentiments en les déversant dans l'esprit d'une autre personne.