Why wasn’t Crusher Picardy Nexus wife.

[suarezguy]

Question in the title.

Probably because it would have seemed too confusing and maybe creepy, the captain wanting to and fantasizing about getting with one of his crew, to new viewers.

Also the writers may have thought-out or actually written that section of the film before "Attached" really brought up the idea that they could get together and, if they did after, thought it was too soon after "Attached" to try to deal with it again or too big a topic to try to quickly skim over.

 

[Herbert]

Who is Picardy Nexus?

My next message board user name

 

[STEPhon IT]

Because.

It is what it is.

 

[Mrs. Silvercrest]

I think it is a case of the one you thought was right for you but you just never marry.

 

[Greg Cox]

Among the other reasons cited, establishing Crusher as Picard's heart's desire would have opened a whole can of worms that the filmmakers presumably didn't want to have to address afterwards.

Unless you're planning to go all in on the Picard/Crusher romance in future movies, why go there?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Was he monogamous to Vash?

Sure we didn't see her, but they could have been together long distance for years, where Picard was content and off the market.

After he changed the timeline, we don't know how many booty calls Picard had with Marta Batanides (tapestry) that she was still expecting that she had fu$kbuddy rights to call on.

 

[Finn]

Picard was in Starfleet for many years before Crusher, and way before Vash and Nella. She could have been someone from his early years in Starfleet.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Picard was in Starfleet for many years before Crusher, and way before Vash and Nella. She could have been someone from his early years in Starfleet.

Wikipedia is uncertain on when Picard graduated Starfleet Academy, there's a 4 year window where it could have happened, but it it's earliest, Picard graduated a year before Beverly was born.

Was Jack Crusher considerably younger than his friend Jean-Luc?

 

[Tenacity]

Was Jack Crusher considerably younger than his friend Jean-Luc?

Or a contemporary with Jeanluc and considerably older than Beverly? Looks pretty youthful in the recording Wesley viewed, but that's the way it is with some older men.

Deep down, Picard didn't see Beverly as a life partner

Many of the pieces were there, but did not amount to "wife." Picard's fantasy was a home life, in his mind that would include a house, a wife and children. Exactly who they were wasn't important, just that they were there.

The wife actress, played an Ensign in season 4.

Her husband was the director of Generations, realistically why she was cast in the role of the wife.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

If one is a Picard / Crusher fan you can fudge the details a bit to support the Nexus vision being indirectly about her.

The Nexus vision is pulled entirely from Picard's mind, so while his deepest wish would be to settle down and form a family with Beverly, his loyalty to his dead friend Jack Crusher is still so powerful that it prevents him from even fantasizing about it in his initial vision. So instead his mind pulls a strikingly Crusher-like Ensign Brooks (another Starfleet widow with red hair serving on the Enterprise) out of his memory as a temporary placeholder until he's ready to fully confront his feelings for Beverly.

Eventually if Picard had remained the vision would be about him and Beverly and their kids having Christmas dinner with Rene. Maybe Picard would even have patched up his relationship with his brother Robert enough (again) to invite him back from the dead to Christmas dinner too, along with Robert's wife. So they all could be one happy family.

Even Kirk's Nexus vision underwent rough drafts like this, where he was first bringing Antonia breakfast in bed and then later went back to the day that they first met. Maybe it was just a part of an arc he was undergoing in his mind that would eventually take him through several past loves and all the way back to marrying Carol Marcus and raising David. Maybe it's a way of visualizing your greatest pain or regret, like a supercharged Sybok, but then reliving it in a different way until you find what makes you most content.

 

[E-DUB]

I think that any guy's "Nexus wife" is going to be the one that "got away" rather than any woman he's actually involved with.

 

[cardinal biggles]

Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but to me, Picard's Nexus fantasy sprung from his guilt over the deaths of Robert and Rene, and that subsequently led to thoughts about what if he hadn't joined Starfleet and instead stayed in France and settled down and had a family. So if he hasn't joined Starfleet, then he most likely would never have met Beverly, hence she's not his wife in the fantasy.

 

[ED-209]

his loyalty to his dead friend Jack Crusher is still so powerful that it prevents him from even fantasizing about it in his initial vision.

That's a pretty cool way around it.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I think that any guy's "Nexus wife" is going to be the one that "got away" rather than any woman he's actually involved with.

"Nexus Wife" sounds like a weird euphemism for "side piece."

 

[Qonundrum]

"There... are... FOUR redheads!!!"

I see a little of Al Bundy in that photo!

 

[Paul Weaver]

Because he'd seen in his future that he and Beverly didn't have a happily ever after.

A possible future, one that was removed by Picard's actions.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Can't you imagine how merciless Will Riker was in the locker room?

"Hey, if you're head over heals in love with that woman, how come I've banged her and you haven't?"

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Janet_Brooks

The wife actress, played an Ensign in season 4.

Same person?

Not the same character, no.

For one thing, they had different accents...

Because he'd seen in his future that he and Beverly didn't have a happily ever after.

That whole future (indeed, the entire episode) was a Q-generated illusion, so nothing in it can be taken at face value.

 

[Prax]

Who is Picardy Nexus?

It's a drink served at Guinan's bar, and by strange coincidence, the stage name of a holonovel star

 

[suarezguy]

Thinking more about it, though dealing with the possibility would have taken some more time, the time may well have been worth it, another way of showing that Picard and his crew weren't just another crew, it would have also probably, especially to viewers of the show, made the scenario feel more tempting and maybe had the idea that Picard's options aren't only just living in a fantasy family or just accept being alone. There should have been some better resolution to Picard's angst over his family members' death than just rejecting Soran's extreme approach.