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[BillJ]

If that's the reason I wish it had been made more clear.

Why?

I thought it was pretty clear what her problem was when Odan was inhabiting Riker. She didn't just jump straight into the sack with him, it took a period of adjustment.

CRUSHER: Cerebral blood flow looks normal. I'll leave you a metabolic booster. Use it if the symptoms get worse.
RIKER: Beverly.
CRUSHER: Beyond that, I don't know what to do. This is all new to me.
RIKER: It is new to me as well. Please, don't go. We've got to talk about this.
CRUSHER: I don't know what to say.
RIKER: Nor do I, but I know that this silence will injure us.
CRUSHER: Well maybe you should have thought about that sooner. Maybe you should have told me what you were. It didn't seem to bother you to remain silent yesterday.
RIKER: It never occurred to me. This is what I am. Did you ever tell me that you are only a single being? Of course not. That was normal to you.
CRUSHER: I don't know who you are.
RIKER: You must understand, whoever I seem to be, I am Odan, who loved you. That has not changed. I still love you. I can't help that. If this causes you pain, I will suppress it, I will keep my distance. Doctor Beverly, I would never hurt you.

Then later in the episode...

CRUSHER: I'm giving you something that should help with the pain. At least for a little while.
RIKER: The pain's gone. Thank you.
(he takes her arm)
CRUSHER: Please don't.
RIKER: Please let me touch you, just for a moment.
(he leans in for a kiss)
CRUSHER: No. Please.

Then even later...

CRUSHER: Tomorrow's an important day. Do you feel ready for it?
RIKER: I'll be fine. I've been preparing.
CRUSHER: That's good.
RIKER: Yes.
CRUSHER: I'll check your vital signs in the morning before the representatives get here.
RIKER: I don't want them knowing I'm taking any medication.
CRUSHER: Maybe you could schedule a series of breaks.
RIKER: That's good.
CRUSHER: Yes.
RIKER: Beverly, I want you. If you're going to leave, you'd better go right now.
CRUSHER: I'm not leaving.

So there wasn't this instantaneous acceptance of Odan when he inhabited Rikers' body. After the first instance Crusher wasn't interested in watching Odan continue to play body hop-scotch over and over.

 

[T'Girl]

I also picked up on a vibe coming from Kareel Odan of, 'okay bev let's resume where we left off,' which I thought was a bit presumptuous.

But that was after Bev's face registered shock at facing a female.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

FWIW, in a subsequent appearance by Kareel in the comics ("A House Divided"), she and Beverly did leave things open as to whether they might get back together.

Spoiler: comic

Kareel is subsequently killed (in a later comic, "Divided We Fall"), and the symbiont implanted into a male security officer. So they apparently didn't do anything with that.

 

[BillJ]

I also picked up on a vibe coming from Kareel Odan of, 'okay bev let's resume where we left off,' which I thought was a bit presumptuous.

But that was after Bev's face registered shock at facing a female.

Crusher pretty much explains her feelings right at the end of the episode:

CRUSHER: Perhaps it is a human failing, but we are not accustomed to these kinds of changes. I can't keep up. How long will you have this host? What would the next one be? I can't live with that kind of uncertainty. Perhaps, someday, our ability to love won't be so limited.

 

[Nightdiamond]

I never got the vibe that it was because Kareel was a woman. Thought it had more to do with the constant changing of bodies. First Odan is Odan, then Odan is Riker, then Odan is Kareel. Sorry it would kinda freak me out to have a lover constantly shifting bodies.

That's why I think we should go easy on Crusher, because of how hard it might be to keep adjusting to someone changing bodies that way.

(Then again some people might like that sort of thing )

But Crusher was clearly expecting another male to be the new host;

BEVERLY :Is the Trill host here?
WORF: Yes.

BEVERLY :Thank goodness... bring him in.

Now, she was smiling as she waited for the new host come, but her expression changed as soon as she saw it was a woman.

That was a tell-tale sign of preference, which was her right, just not clearly spoken.