Picard is Wesley's father?

[Memory Alpha]

Is Picard Wesley's father?

No.

. . .

I don't see any reason to think so, really. Yes, Beverly seems keen on Picard being a role model or father figure for Wes, but that is really not even evidence in favor of the theory. Beverly respects J-L highly, and this "I have something to tell you" is really, IMO, nothing more than that she has feelings for him. It would take all the way until "Attached" for it to become clear that it is mutual. I really don't think anything ever happened between Bev and J-L other than they both took a couple of long looks at each other from across the ballroom.

 

[Keith1701]

Well, they weren't about to die together in Darmok. Beverly was on the ship and Picard was fighting for his life alongside Dathon.

Good Question for sure.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Oy. Being bald needs a dramatic backstory?

Trust me. It doesn't have one.

I'm sure!

My father's explanation for his baldness was, "Grass doesn't grow on a busy street."

I'm totally stealing that line.

 

[Karzak]

And besides, Picard doesn't particularly care for children, so he would have used protection if he'd nailed Beverly. He wouldn't have risked getting her pregnant.

^^ LMAO!!!

I bet the ladies must be knocking both your doors down for dates, amirite?

 

[Mutai Sho-Rin]

And besides, Picard doesn't particularly care for children, so he would have used protection if he'd nailed Beverly. He wouldn't have risked getting her pregnant.

^^ LMAO!!!

I bet the ladies must be knocking both your doors down for dates, amirite?

Completely unnecessary jab at other posters. This could be grounds for a Trolling warning. Don't make that happen.

 

[Granola Gwen]

I've been reading through this thread for an hour or so, and I have to agree with Whoa Nellie's thoughts. Picard and Beverly aren't the kind of people to sleep around when one of them is already married. I can't imagine the captain that we all know and cherish to stoop to a low level such as adultery. The fact is if it was never stated in the series, then it's not canon. Like someone said earlier, with all the medical technology in that future it would be hard to ignore said genetics if Picard was the father. Why go beyond that?

 

[Lance]

Indeed. It's also like I pointed out earlier, the episode that was expressly designed to draw the definitive statement on the Picard/Crusher romance, "Attached", makes no comment of them ever having slept together. In fact, it infers exactly the opposite. They have a UST with each other, that much is undeniable, and maybe they did even when Jack was still around. But that's about as far as it ever went. Beverly was happily married, and Jean Luc was too much the gentleman to ever go there.

 

[Karzak]

I think it suggests an otherwise unflattering light on two characters who have been presented as heroic people living in a time when such petty, base drives were (as determined by Roddenberry) not part of the emotional, social, or behavioral makeup of humanity.

One of the Peter David novels features an alternate universe where Picard and Beverly have a torrid love affair after she'd divorced Jack (and who was also still alive), and it's mostly as salacious and scandalous as you'd think it would be, motivating a sense of revenge from Jack that furthers the plot of the book. Beyond that, it was nothing special.

Picard might have been a ladies man, but he was no adulterer, and he certainly was not the type (nor was Beverly) to run around his best friend's back. The suggestion that Wesley is actually the product of an illicit union between the two is ridiculous in the context of the show.

 

[Rojixus]

I know it's bad fanon, but it's just too juicy to pass up. Besides, I thought everyone but Picard and Worf was bland at best. Especially Beverly.

 

[JoeCabby]

I used to think this Picard was Wesley's father during the original run. The last time I watched it though, I never even thought about it and after reading this thread, it just doesn't make sense that Picard is the father.

 

[JWPlatt]

I've read a few posts here that ascribe behaviors to characters that are independent of writers. That's just not how I think. Characters do what the writers say they do - with some room for an actor's interpretation within the performance. If writers want to do something with a character, they will, often calling it a "twist" or adding circumstances to explain uncharacteristic behavior. To wit: Picard said himself he was a different person in his Academy days. So anything is possible with Boinking Beverley.

I think the production was teasing the audience to test the waters, much like entertainment and political so-called "leaks" float an idea with plausible deniability if there is rejection or outrage. I am very glad TNG did not go down that soap opera road.

 

[think]

Ok but no, it is Darth Vader that is Luke's father OK lets just keep these things ... straight..

did they really suggest this?

You see this is the stuff that happens to me when I don't watch the other area's of this forum

what about that Tasha Yar and her abstract time framed birth? of sorts.?? Is she really Beverley's great grandma? IDK.. I don't think..so, it is like the books about Spock and yesterdays son,.. thing.. there is a conundrum going on with this like all paradoxical time things.

Is Wesley Picards father? and is it possible to be both the father and the son of the same person during time travel situations and such.. I think it would be confusing, interesting and yes possible hence we are not allowed to .. do that mostly I guess.

 

[HIjol]

I think The Traveller is Wesley's father.

 

[Nebusj]

I think The Traveller is Wesley's father.

I thought the show was pretty clear on how Wesley is Picard's father.

 

[Disco]

I think Deanna Troi is Wesley's father.




Makes about as much sense as Picard.

 

[T'Girl]

Perhaps Wesley was his own father? Wesley possessing that whole Oedipus Complex thing.

Beverly: "Wesley ... you look just like your father.

 

[HIjol]

WAIT!!! <frantically doing real hard math>

Yes, the dates work out:

Gene Roddenberry is Wesley's Father!

...lookie!...uh huh, uh huh!!!...they could be TWINS!!!

 

[think]

so Wesley is a Roddenberry clone?

that might make .. Wesley Wesley's father as well? from a different time like say a left field touchdown in center court ,, or even from inside the tequila bottle next to the worm that .. amoebaish- reproduction separatistically opened the gate to forever ... again?

 

[HIjol]

^^There is another "Dune" book sequel in there somewhere, isn't there?

thinker of Dune: Revenge of the Worm
by Cuervo Press, ISBN 100100101, R.R. Bowker.

Come, think, let me get you something...

 

[Ithekro]

No no. Not clone. He is Wesley. Eugene Wesley Roddenberry.

There was an awful lot of time travel going on.