Beverly Crusher Vs. Love

Dax Orien · **Fri Oct 05, 2001 12:12 pm**

During the series, Captain Jean-Luc Picard made many obvious attempts to seduce Doctor Beverly Crusher. More or less he wanted her to like him. And every attempt he initiated, she rejected. What was she afraid of? Why did she push him away? Most will say it is because of Doctor Crusher's deceased husband, and how Captain Picard and him were best friends. Many know and accept this, but some hoped for a better more precise explanation.

J_Unit · **Fri Oct 05, 2001 1:27 pm**

This is an interesting question. I just saw an episode in that Picard said some thing like "maybe we shouldn't be afraid to expore our feelings for each other" and Crusher said "Maybe we should". I got the impression that she didn't want to explore it because of their professional relationship.

Lindley · **Fri Oct 05, 2001 1:29 pm**

In the episode "Remember Me" she is going to tell the Warp Bubble version of him, but he disappears first.

tom-paris-voyager · **Fri Oct 05, 2001 1:52 pm**

lol, i iked that ep, so good!

Link, the Hero of Time · **Fri Oct 05, 2001 2:29 pm**

i think when she tries to get close to somebody, memories of her dead husband rush back to her

Dax Orien · **Fri Oct 05, 2001 7:16 pm**

That actually makes a lot of sense.

Link, the Hero of Time · **Fri Oct 05, 2001 9:55 pm**

well it would make sense. her husband did die, i believe they had to leave him behind, and memories of that day keep coming back when she gets close to somebody... like Picard

Mysotti · Captain Joined: 04 Jul 2001 Posts: 877 Location: Wisconsin

Maybe she was trying to set an example for Wesley

Link, the Hero of Time · **Sat Oct 06, 2001 1:15 pm**

and what would that be?? try no matter what to make yourself unhappy

Dax Orien · **Sat Oct 06, 2001 9:43 pm**

Captain Skyline · Vice Admiral Joined: 09 Aug 2001 Posts: 6646 Location: UK

Dax Orien · **Sun Oct 07, 2001 11:22 am**

Were. They divorced. She just kept the name that's all.

Link, the Hero of Time · **Mon Oct 08, 2001 9:19 am**

yeah your right they did divorce. but it proves my point, she tries to seperate herself from those who love her, and make herself as lonley as possible

Dax Orien · **Wed Oct 10, 2001 3:45 pm**

She was to quick to push back she should have let it happen

Link, the Hero of Time · **Wed Oct 10, 2001 7:22 pm**

she couldn't, every time she tried she'd push them away even more

Dax Orien · **Thu Oct 11, 2001 4:37 pm**

huh?

Link, the Hero of Time · **Fri Oct 26, 2001 5:54 pm**

every time someone like Picard tried to get close to her she pushed farther and farther away. she couldn't even try a start a relationship.. though i do think that Wesley could be Beverly and Jean-luke's child.. he does have some of picard's more "charming" traits.

ivylgtiger · **Sat Oct 27, 2001 10:02 pm**

Remeber, she did seem "fond" of the "energy-incubus" that
the female members of her family kept company with.

That episode was about the Scottish-style colony.

Finally, an apparition she could be alone with. Safe even
for her...

Dax Orien · **Sat Oct 27, 2001 10:59 pm**

...I just thought of something sick but I will not mention it for fear of expulsion from this site.

5thhouse · **Mon May 06, 2002 5:58 pm**

It was her marriage to Lt. Cmdr. Jack Crusher that provided the major trauma of her adult life when he died on an away team mission off the U.S.S. Stargazer under Captain Jean-Luc Picard in 2355. Before their wedding on July 20, 2348, during her medical schooling, the future Crushers had dated for several months until he finally proposed by sending her the book "How To Advance Your Career Through Marriage." The two had first been introduced by Walker Keel, who with Jack had been Picard's closest friend during their early years in Starfleet; ironically, her relationship with Jack followed an intense but brief affair that had already run its course.

The new couple and Picard became close friends during those years the men served on Picard's U.S.S. Stargazer. The captain later accompanied her to the Starbase 32 morgue to view Jack's corpse, but it was not until years later again - again, in 2370 - that Picard confirmed her suspicion that he too was attracted to her, thanks to a telepathic linkage while held as spies on Kesprytt. Picard had denied there would be any personal problems when she signed aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise as his CMO in 2364 at Farpoint Station, but in reality both knew they shared a latent interest in each other by the time of the Tsiolkovsky virus epidemic that brought it out only a few weeks later.

In her later years Dr. Crusher had another intimate yet short-lived relationship with the Joined Trill ambassador Odan, and had displayed affection for an evolving Zalkon called "John Doe" and visiting historian Berlinghoff Rasmussen - the latter only until his time-traveling story turned out to be a hoax.

DocBevCrusher · **Sun Jun 15, 2003 9:24 pm**

I think she fears commiting herself completely to any man for fear of loosing him and for fear of betraying her dead husband. Even though he is dead. It seems everytime she is ready to tell Picard she loves him something happens, i think she just got tired of it and gave up. Though she shouldn't have!!!

Ronevick · **Sun Jun 15, 2003 9:25 pm**

crusherjaneway · **Tue Jun 17, 2003 6:30 pm i think**

She loved him very much, but memories of her past with Jack and professional lives kept her from admitting it.

There were times when she initiated things...

Naked Now...

Datatech · Lieutenant, Junior Grade Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 83

Ya she did like him very much at one time

crusherjaneway · **Wed Jun 18, 2003 7:23 pm hehe**

I just read some thing on a fansite that said that part of what they wanted to do with "Attached" had to do with them being addicted to each other, and then later them being on withdrawl, so later, she was afraid to initiate something because it might be her craving his mind...which sort of explains why she didn't say yes then.

And if it isn't true...

Then it sounds better to us P/C shippers!