Was there only one ship's counselor on a starship?

[Alidar Jarok]

rofeta said:

Ethros said:
Maybe Voyager's counselor was killed in the intial trip to the Delta Quadrant, like a lot of other crewmembers?

As for the reason Troi was on the bride was because she part-Betazoid, that's a good idea, to predict what the enemy is going to do...
But then its pretty stupid as to why every ship in the fleet doesn't do that. Even better use a full-Betazoid to know EXACTLY what the enemy is up to.
I always thought Janeway was pretty dumb for not utilizing the Betazoid on her crew (not Lon Suder, the other one, female)

Aren't the Betazoids very strict with reading minds? In that they don't believe they have the right and an invasion for them to read a mind without having expressed permission.

I'm not sure about that. Not that Lwaxana is anything to go by, but, in Haven, she seemed like she regularly read people's mind (and wondered why humans think one thing and say another).