"The master BONCer"?
Heh.
Basic plot of DiW as I remember it (ie one which completely neglects the whole Romulan plot, cause I was only readin' for the P/C love):
Flashback. Spy-type dude remembering Crusher wedding where at he collected the DNA of important Fleet types. He had some trouble collecting Picard's though, because Picard is too busy being miserably in love with the bride to use cutlery or have a drink.
Present. Picard is moping around the
Enterprise. He misses Data, Will, and Deanna, but he
really misses Beverly on account of still being very much in love with her. He contacts her by subspace, which is the conversation from the cut scene in Nem, which only makes him miss her more.
At some point stuff happens with Romulans.
Beverly goes to a frozen planet in the back of beyond to help cure a plague. We get a flashback to ArvadaIII which was apparently a grand colony until a spaceship arrived full of alliens with the same disease present Crusher is on back of beyond planet to cure. We get a scene about Beverly's first boyf, who then dies, because Beverly has clearly been bad luck for men for a very long time.
Romulans attack. Sela's one of them.
Beverly is declared missing, presumed dead. Admiral dude contacts Picard to inform him. Picard refuses to believe it. The admiral gives Picard the mission of bringing a new doctor to back of beyonf planet to help with the cure. If he likes he can also look for Bev while he's there, but the admiral is kinda "don't hold your breath".
The
Enterprise is still up on the blocks from driving nose first into the
Scimitar so Picard heads off with a motley crew of people whom of I've never heard before, but I'm assured they're in other tie in novels and have something to do with the
Stargazer.
Intrigue. More stuff with Romulans. Beverly's not dead and escapes from her cell after some more flashbacks. She's helped by a Romulan for reasons I can't remember.
Geordi and Worf decide to track down the captain and Beverly and help if they can. Janeway tells them to stop it. They do. This plotline goes exactly nowhere.
Picard's being Picard and understanding what's going on with the Romulans a lot better than I do. One of his exshipmates notices he's quiet and broody during any downtime. Other exshipmate explains that he's thinking about Crusher, and exshipmate number one realises that Picard has deeper feelings for Beverly than any of them had realised. (I mention this scene, cause I thought it was rather sweetly written, not over the top)
Stuff happens. It involves Romulans.
A meeting is arranged to return Beverly to Picard. The rendezvous is ambushed by Sela and her people. Beverly gets to be all action hero-y, which rocks. The Romulans are eventually subdued.
Picard makes a serious faux pas. He's so relieved to see Beverly alive and well that while he hugs her he tells her how much he loves her, breaking the unspoken rule that they don't say that kind of thing out loud. Beverly immediately becomes withdrawn.
On the way back to Earth things are tense as Beverly remains distant and kinda weird with Picard. He's relieved when they go their seperate ways.
Cut to Picard in his Ready Room feeling a bit sorry for himself because he's been chasing redheaded women around the ship thinking they're Beverly but they never are. (OK, it's better written than that, but that's the gist
)
He's paged that the new CMO has beamed aboard, he says "send him in" only to be informed it's a woman. When she enters he can't bring himself to turn around, and makes some lame excuse for not meeting her before. Then she speaks and it's Beverly.
And then [argh] she comes over to Picard and says "I've been such a fool" because obviously every complication in their relationship is due to her bad decisions, and she kisses him. A lot.
End DiW.
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Okay. How long do you want it to be, or just any length as long as it's not as short as a vignette?
