Spoilers Theory - Crusher's assistant = ...?

[Methuselah Flint]

May be too obvious writing...however...

It's implied in Attached that Crusher had no idea that Picard was in love with and/or had feelings for her.

They flirted/expressed possibility of expanding their relationship in episodes such as Allegiance (albeit the fake Picard), but it was never taken any further.

However, Crusher did leave the ship in season two.

What if they had sex during the Naked Now, and Crusher had the baby in season two?

It wouldn't retcon their relationship, as their 'act' was under the virus.

Of course, they could have gone further and made love anytime post-Attached, so that's a possibility too.

It would explain the Picard/Crusher conflict this season. I.e. she didn't tell him.

All pure guesses, and possibly too fanw**ky.

Thoughts..?

 

[James Cole]

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The theory is heavily explored in this video from the Popcast.

The character was cast at the same time as Renée Picard from PICARD season 2.

 

[Harpsichord]

Spoiler: Only open if you like spoilers!

All but confirmed with this screenshot from the press kit this morning.

 

[Methuselah Flint]

Post-Nemesis baby?

 

[Harpsichord]

Post-Nemesis baby?

That makes the most sense to me because I think this'll end up being the reason Beverly left Starfleet. She lost Jack and Wesley while they were in Starfleet, it makes sense that she would take a new son away from that life.

 

[WarpFactorZ]

Post-Nemesis baby?

Ed Speelers is 34. A post-Nemesis (2379) baby would be mid 20s, assuming S3 takes place in 2404. I suppose he could be playing a younger character, but he doesn't really look the age.

 

[Caeruleus]

But this guy is 30 years old. Nemesis was 20 years ago. No way.

 

[Methuselah Flint]

If pre-Nemesis, when?

 

[Peach Wookiee]

My ship… IS SAILING!!!

 

[Tuskin38]

Actor age doesn't always equal character age.

 

[Tosk]

You don't get to be on the poster by just being "Crusher's assistant".

 

[gvn2fly]

Spoiler: Spoiler from EW Article

Watching Star Trek with his dad every Sunday from the living room couch, Matalas felt like Captain Picard and his chief medical officer on the Enterprise were among the "will they, won't they" greats of television. "It feels like, 'Why didn't they for decades?'" he asks himself. "It felt like it should have gone there in a feature film. Now that you're here at the end, wouldn't it be great to see, 'Oh, they went there alright.'"

With the return of McFadden as Beverly Crusher, Matalas says "we get to see the fallout of that," as well as "a coming together" in the final season.

 

[NCC-73515]

Let's just say the way it is slowly revealed who he is, and if he is, is done really well and includes great moments.

 

[Bynar]

Let's just say the way it is slowly revealed who he is, and if he is, is done really well and includes great moments.

Are the theories surrounding the character hot or cold in truth?

 

[gvn2fly]

I’m going to fail so bad at avoiding spoilers lol

 

[NCC-73515]

Are the theories surrounding the character hot or cold in truth?

Spoiler

You're fine with metaphasic shielding

 

[NCC-73515]

Spoiler

Could've been S2 and that's why she left, or also S4, when Gates was really pregnant, and they filmed around it trying to hide it with her coat and special camera angles

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

If "Jack Jr." is indeed Picard's son, I imagine Jean-Luc won't be too happy that Beverly didn't tell him...

 

[WarpFactorZ]

If "Jack Jr." is indeed Picard's son, I imagine Jean-Luc won't be too happy that Beverly didn't tell him...

Maybe she did. From the S3 script:

PICARD: I did what you wanted. ...I stayed away. ...Why didn't you tell him?
BEV: How can you ask me that? Were we together? Were we going to be? You had your world and I had mine. And I wanted him in mine, not chasing through the universe with his father. ... Actually, he's a lot like you. In many ways. Please tell me what you're feeling.
PICARD: There's a man woman out there I haven't seen in fifteen years have never seen who's trying to kill me. You show me a son that'd be happy to help him. My son. ...My life that could have been, ...and wasn't. And what am I feeling? ...Old. ...Worn out.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

If "Jack Jr." is indeed Picard's son, I imagine Jean-Luc won't be too happy that Beverly didn't tell him...

She would have been 39-40 during the first season of NextGen,so if Jack Jr. was conceived then and that's why she went to Starfleet Medical I can buy that.

A Nemesis-era conception, she's in her mid-fifties and a few years past her natural reproductive capacity, and while I think 24th-century medical technology could artificially produce a viable egg for a post-menopause woman for in vitro, she's not having a child accidentally at that age and Jean-Luc would certainly be aware.