Was Picard Wesley's real father?

No doubt. However, with the sexual tension between Picard and Beverly, I think the whole dynamic was clichéd as it was.

 

No, that's not true.

It's impossible!

 

When the blood's running hot, all that goes out the window.

(as did Picard when Jack came home unexpected)

 

And they say romance is dead.

 

Jack's death under Picard commad is already a strong factor of complication between them. Picard had already enough a rich background to not needing that. Why having "Wesley, I'm your father" when you can have Tapestry? Beverly could have had a bigger background, but I don't think adultery is the more productive idea. And there was already a main character with an "illegitimate" son ...but perhaps Alexander's real parents were Minuet and Thomas Riker.....

 

It's not adultery if neither participant is married.

 

I'm more interested in what Beverly kept trying to tell Jean Luc but never seemed able to get to. Was that ever resolved?

 

Do we know one way or the other if Carol Marcus was married when she conceived David with Kirk?

 

I didn't say David and Alexander were born from adultery. They're both born from unmarried parents. My point is, since two characters in Star Trek were raised by their single mother (of course, it was shorter for Alexander), the Star Trek viewers are clearly enough adult to accept a child born from adultery.

 

The adult story was something along the lines of.

Wesley: you got my father killed,

Picard: dam straight, thats what he gets for fathering such an insufferable b@$t@3d.

 

I doubt it. Carol made it quite clear that she didn't expect or want to be part of Kirk's life. I doubt she ever wanted to marry him (never mind what HE wanted).

 

Actually, the manifestation of baldness comes from the mother, rather than from the father. That doesn't mean that the baldness gene can't be present in fathers, but it manifests in the son more often from the mother side than the father side.

 

The reason the creative team decided not to make him Picard's son was to ensure the "end of the Picard line" moroseness of Star Trek: Generations (which was shortly to enter production) was kept intact. I think this is chronicled in Nemecek's "Companion" book.

It would've been terrible. And remember, rightly or wrongly, at the time the idea was that 24th century humanity - especially the TNG crew - were a 'perfect' representation of the best the race has to offer.

Moreover, cheating on your best mate with his wife (and fathering a child, which your oblivious best mate then raises as his own) is pretty tawdry (even with "great writers") and would have damaged the character of Picard beyond repair, I believe.

It would've been bad for the character(s) and the show.

 

Picard siring Wesley?...not in a Zillion years...

 

Now Riker would have slept with Beverly...oh wait he did.. lol

 

Riker/Odan ≠ Riker

 

But it remains Riker's sperm.

 

In what universe do Beverly and Riker have a child? Not in the Prime Universe right? It's only in some of the multitudes in "Parallels", in which anything that can happen has happened somewhere. So, whatever.

 

Well, that leaves a bad taste in the mouth.