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medicinal uses of herbs Pirates of Penzance. (“Disaster” [TNG]). Crusher wrote a play for and roots to help care for § her troupe, called Something for Breakfast. (“A Fistful of Datas” the sick and wounded after - oy “ [TNG]). Another play written by Crusher was entitled Frame of regular medical supplies ~~ Mind. (“Frame of Mind” [TNG]) had been exhausted ~ < Beverly's maiden name, Howard, is from her biographical (“The Arsenal of Freedom™ y \ computer screen in “Conundrum” (TNG), named for Star Trek [TNG]) I The Next Generation producer Mer Howard, although the name Beverly was intro- was used for her maternal grandmother. Gates McFadden left duced to her future hus- the Star Trek cast in the second season, during which the chief band, Starfleet officer / medical officer was played by Diana Muldaur as Dr. Katherine Jack Crusher, by their A Pulaski (which is why Crusher left the ship to become head of mutual friend Walker Keel EY Starfleet Medical during that year). McFadden and Crusher “Conspiracy” [TNG]). She NN NS returned to the Enterprise-D during the third and subsequent married Jack in 2348, and a 1 ) seasons. Beverly Crusher first appeared in “Encounter at the two had a child, Ea Farpoint” (TNG). Wesley Crusher, the fol- » lowing year. As a young Crusher, Jack R. (Doug Wert). Starfleet offimarried couple, Beverly cer, husband to Beverly Crusher, and - and her husband Jack A: father to Wesley Crusher. Jack Crusher, a -— spent a great deal of time close friend to Captain Jean-Luc Picard, \ with Jean-Luc Picard. She marned medical student Beverly Howard in did not learn until many 2348. Crusher had proposed to Beverly by years later that Picard had giving her a gag gift, a book entitled How to fallen in love with her, but Advance Your Career Through Marriage [] he didn't act on his feelings Their son, Wesley, was born a year later. Py in order to not betray his ("Family” [TNG]). During their marriage, friend. (“Attached” [TNG]). Crusher did her internship on planet Crusher and his wife spent extended periods of time with his Delos IV under the tutelage of Dr. Dalen Quaice in 2352. friend, Jean-Luc Picard. Crusher was never aware that his friend (“Remember Me" [TNG]). Following her husband's death in Picard, was strongly attracted to Beverly. When Wesley was 2354, Beverly continued to pursue her Starfleet career, attaining young, Jack and Beverly took him on a camping trip to Balfour the position of chief medical officer aboard the Enterprise-D in Lake. (“Attached” [TNG]). Lieutenant Commander Jack Crusher 2364. (“Encounter at Farpoint” [TNG]). Crusher left the served aboard the U.S.S. Stargazer under the command of Enterprise-D in 2365 to accept a position as head of Starfleet Captain Picard and was killed on an away mission in 2354, when Medical, but returned to the ship a year later, and was reunited his son was only five years old. (“Encounter at Farpoint, Parts | with her son, Wesley. (“Evolution” [TNG]). In 2366, Crusher and I" [TNG]). Shortly after Wesley's birth, Jack recorded a holobecame romantically interested in a man from planet Zalkon graphic message to his infant son, intended for playback when whom she had named John Doe. (“Transfigurations” [TNG]). The Wesley reached adulthood. Jack hoped this would be the first in a following year, she became involved with a Trill named series of such messages, but it was the only one he made. Wesley Ambassador Odan. Although the two were very much in love, played the message some 18 years later, in 2367. (*Family” [TNG]). Beverly found it difficult to accept her lover inhabiting a different Even though Jack Crusher died several years before the first seabody. (“The Host” [TNG)). Beverly's grandmother, Felisa son of Star Trek: The Next Generation, we've seen him three times Howard, died in 2370, and Beverly returned to her grandmoth- The first was in Wesley's holographic message in “Family” (TNG), er's home at the Caldos Colony to speak at the funeral. Beverly and then briefly again in Beverly's telepathic memory invasion discovered her grandmother had taken a lover, apparently a 34- flashback in “Violations” (TNG), and in Wesley's vision in year-old man named Ronin, who was actually an anaphasic “Journey's End" (TNG). life-form that had been a “spirit lover” of Howard women for 20 generations. Beverly was at first taken in by Ronin, and even ag Crusher, Wesley. (Wil Wheaton) went so far as 1o resign from Starfleet to remain on Caldos with Son of Starfleet officers Jack him, before Beverly was forced to kill him in order to protect her Crusher and Beverly Crusher friends. (“Sub Rosa” [TNG]) - Wesley was born in 2349 and was Although a physician aboard a starship is not normally . raised by his mother following the regarded as a line officer, Crusher was left in command of the death of his father, Jack, in 2354 Enterprise-D when virtually the entire crew was transported to the ; when Wesley was five years old surface of a planet to search for Data in early 2369. Crusher NE (“True Q" [TNG]). Wesley went to employed the metaphasic shield technology which the ship had live on the Starship Enterprise-D aquired from Dr. Reyga in order to escape a pursuing Borg ship in 2364, when his mother was and rescue the crew on the surface. (“Descent, Part II" [TNG]) assigned to that ship as chief Later that year, Crusher was severely injured by Worf, who was medical officer. (“Encounter at under the influence of Barclay's Protomorphosis Syndrome Farpoint, Parts | and II” [TNG]) She was placed in stasis and required reconstructive surgery. Wesley spent little time with his (“Genesis" [TNG]). Crusher’s stint in stasis helped facilitate the father before his death, but fact that Gates McFadden was directing this episode. recalled that Jack taught him to Beverly was quite an accomplished dancer. Her colleagues play baseball. (“Evolution” [TNG]) named her “The Dancing Doctor,” a nickname she disliked, so Wesley showed a keen interaboard the Enterprise-D she did her best to avoid demonstrating est in science and technology, her skills. Nevertheless, the fact that she had won first place in a and had an extraordinary ability dance competition in St. Louis was part of her Starfleet record, so to visualize complex mathematiData asked her to help him learn to dance for the wedding of cal concepts, an ability that the Miles O'Brien and Keiko Ishikawa in 2367. (“Data's Day" [TNG]). Traveler once urged Captain Picard to nurture. Perhaps in Beverly also had a strong interest in amateur theatrics and was response, Picard commissioned Crusher an acting ensign on director of a successful theater company aboard the Enterprise- stardate 41263.4 in recognition of Wesley's key role in returning D. Among the productions performed by her company in 2367 the Enterprise-D to Federation space after it was stranded by was Cyrano de Bergerac. (“The Nth Degree” [TNG]). Several Kosinski's failed warp-drive experiments, (“Where No One Has months later, her troupe performed Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gone Before” [TNG])