In a nutshell 'no', he cares about his crews too much. Last night I watched 'The Bonding' (S3, Ep5) where the ship's archaeologist was killed leaving a 12 year son. Wes's father was bought up in this and there was no sign of Picard killing him.
Did Picard deliberately kill Jack Crusher?
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I dunno, she was really hot.
In the Mirror Universe, Picard probably *did* kill Jack. But not in the RU. Picard's a man of honor and principle.
My thoughts exactly. I find it incomprehensible to think that he killed Jack.
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No he didn't kill him, weren't they like best friends or something?
Which book was that?
Can´t remember the title...but is was one where there was a kind of "timeline chaos"...different timelines intertwining and overlapping...and Q is involved too. And someting about that Jack Crusher is dead in ALL timelines but one where Wesley died instead by falling from a tree as an infant.
This post is a perfect example of one reason why books are not considered canon. The Star Trek TNG novel you're describing is Peter David's "Q Squared."
Warmest Wishes,
Whoa Nellie
Questions like this one make me wonder if others saw a different series from the one I watched all these years. I mean, The Next Generation assuredly leaves a lot of room for interpretation about some elements of the character's backstories. But I don't see how Picard deliberately killing Jack Crusher fits into anything we know about the character after 176 episodes and four movies.
Yeah, not so much.
What has this to do with books not beeing canon? I can´t remember the title of every episode either...80 % of the books I have are Star Trek Novels...so it´s hard to remember a specific english title (since most are german translations and have totally different german titles)
That was my point. Decades of television episodes and movies are difficult enough for the average fan to keep track of. Adding the decades of novels (not all fans read the novels and there is the problem of a lack of continuity between novels) changes a rich tapestry of canon into an unruly, useless Gordian knot. It becomes Calvinball (for my fellow Calvin and Hobbes fans).
Warmest Wishes,
Whoa Nellie
Maybe so, but in fairness I don't think it necessarily has to be that way (or has had to be that way). It is that way because of Gene's decision to exclude the non-televised media from the official canon, and thereby making it a bit harder to keep things consistent between the differing sets of media. The version of Jack getting killed by the natives was in the novelization of "Encounter at Farpoint."
I don't want to drag things too far OT regarding a canon discussion, as that's a separate issue for its own thread. (And we all know how fun those are...
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I don't want to drag things too far OT regarding a canon discussion, as that's a separate issue for its own thread. (And we all know how fun those are...
).
So, how exactly did Jack Crusher die? The specifics were never mentioned but from the one episode where Wesley Crusher goes to take some Starfleet Academy entrance exams, he sort of hints towards it.
After the "Psyche" test, he mentions that his father died because Captain Picard had to make a decision which resulted in Jack Crusher's death.
We also know that Picard was in love with Beverly at some point, so I have to wonder if Picard deliberately or even at a subconscious level, put Jack Crusher in harm's way?
Later, he has a guilt trip over it and distances himself from Beverly because his desire to get into her pants ended up costing his best friend his life.
Yep....that's the way I think it went down!
That hypothesis would have meant that Picard was more than a cardboard cut-out. So I'd have to disagree.
No, he didn't. I don't even get why you would like the idea of him doing something so bizarre, evil and out of character.
This is like saying, hey maybe Riker actually knew his duplicate was stranded on that planet all of those years and left him there on purpose just to be a dick. I suppose you could make up some sort of strange argument for it, but the facts, what we see onscreen and what we know about the characters don't support these kinds of wild ideas at all.
This is like saying, hey maybe Riker actually knew his duplicate was stranded on that planet all of those years and left him there on purpose just to be a dick. I suppose you could make up some sort of strange argument for it, but the facts, what we see onscreen and what we know about the characters don't support these kinds of wild ideas at all.
Maybe because it's a new take on things...after all these years just about every thing has been talked about, so just trying something different.
At least we haven't reached the level of talking about...I don't know....Geordie's fingernails or something.
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