Full Name: Beverly Cheryl Howard Crusher Rank: Commander Current assignment: Chief Medical Officer, U.S.S. Enterprise (detached service upon loss of vessel in 2371) Education: Starfleet Academy and Medical School, 2342-50 Starfleet Career Summary 2352 – Began her medical internship under Dr. Dalen Quaice, on Delos IV 2363 -- Passed the Bridge Officers Examination 2364 -- Named Chief Medical Officer on the U.S.S. Enterprise-D, under the command Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Holds Rank of Commander 2365 -- Headed Starfleet Medical one year 2366 -- Reassigned as Chief Medical Officer, U.S.S. Enterprise-D 2369 -- Temporarily relieved of duty amid the Reyga incident. Later reinstated 2372 -- Transferred with the remainder of Picard's senior staff to Sovereign-class U.S.S. Enterprise-E 2373 -- Acted as first officer during an attempt to repair Borg temporal sabotage of Earth's first contact with an alien race Personal History Dr. Beverly Crusher, born Beverly Howard in 2324. As a young girl her mouth often got her into trouble with her teachers and friends, breaking off one date with Tom Norris by saying "Is that a beard, or is your face dirty?" An incident she later came to regret, and that she learned a valuable lesson from. She survived the terrible tragedy on Arvada III, after all the colony's medical supplies were depleted. In the disaster, she helped care for survivors as her grandmother taught her about the different medicinal uses of herbs and roots. Crusher entered Starfleet Academy Medical School in 2342. She then married Jack Crusher in 2348 after he proposed by giving her the book "How To Advance Your Career Through Marriage?" Wesley their son was born in the following year. Dr. Crusher did internship in 2352, on Delos IV under tutelage of Dr. Dalen Quaice. After Jack died while serving on U.S.S. Stargazer, under the command of Captain Picard, Beverly pursued a Starfleet career. She became the Chief Medical Officer on the Enterprise-D in 2364. During her first year aboard the Enterprise, Beverly, with Captain Picard, Data, and Lt. Whalen, became trapped inside the holodeck in an approximation of a Dixon Hill story. This occurred after a Jaradan probe damaged the holodeck. In 2365, Beverly left the Enterprise for a year to become Head of Starfleet Medical leaving her son Wesley on the Enterprise. The following year, Beverly returned to replace Dr. Pulaski as the Enterprise's CMO. That year she became romantically interested in a man whom she called "John Doe." They found him in an unexplored star system within the Zeta Gelis Cluster, on a crashed spaceship. Bringing him aboard, Beverly discovered that "John" had suffered total amnesia, and that his body's damaged cells were mutating without any explanation. "John Doe" was a fugitive from a planet called Zalkon. He and three others were the first to experience a wondrous mutation into a higher plane of existence. After protecting the Enterprise from a Zalkonian vessel, "John" left the ship. In 2367, Crusher became trapped in a static warp bubble after her son Wesley's experiment went wrong. This bubble took the form of her own private universe and her thoughts become reality. In this universe, the crew began to disappear one by one, starting with Beverly's mentor and friend, Dr. Dalen Quaice. The Traveller, from Tau Alpha C, arrived on the Enterprise to help retrieve the missing Doctor. With his help, a vortex gateway was able to be created to return Beverly to her own reality. Later that year she fell in love with the Trill Ambassador Odan, during his mediation with the inhabitants of the Peliar Zel moons. When a shuttle carrying both Commander Riker and Odan to the negotiations was attacked, Beverly discovered that the Trill are a joined species, of a host and symbiont. The Odan host was fatally injured, leaving Beverly to place the symbiont Odan in stasis. To help to put an end to the dispute, Riker volunteered to serve as a host to Odan This complicated matters between Beverly and Odan further, as she felt like she didn't know who she fell in love with. Eventually, Odan is successful in the negotiations, and is removed from Riker's body. A new Trill host arrived for Odan, a female, and it is at the point that Beverly and Odan separated amicably. Beverly is interested in amateur dramatics; founding an acting workshop aboard the Enterprise. So far she has staged productions on the Enterprise of several plays including "Cyrano de Bergerac", in which Beverly cast Lieutenant Barclay in the title role, opposite her as Roxanne. In "Frame of Mind" she cast Commander Riker as a psychiatric patient in a machiavellian hospital, who was incarcerated for a homicidal offence. She also staged the play "Something for Breakfast", and tried to get Captain Picard to play the role of the butler. In 2369, Beverly invited a team of scientists aboard the U.S.S Enterprise to test a new metaphasic shield technology. Dr Reyga, a Ferengi scientist, equipped a Shuttlecraft with this new shield. The Shuttlecraft was piloted into the corona of a star by the Takaran scientist, Jo'Bril. He died during the flight, although his death was not attributed to solar radiation. Unable to find a cause for Jo'Bril's death, Beverly began an investigation. The investigation took an unexpected turn as Dr. Reyga was found dead; an apparent suicide. Beverly would not accept this, and performed an autopsy on Reyga, which is against Ferengi custom, but to no avail. Beverly was then relieved of duty as Chief Medical Officer, until she decided to test the shuttle herself. En route she was attacked by Jo'Bril, who had faked his own death. After a brief struggle, she managed to killed Jo'Bril, and returned to the ship, where she was then reinstated as Chief Medical Officer. Following an incident with the Borg that year she temporarily became the Captain of the Enterprise-D, employing the metaphasic shield to destroy a Borg ship threatening the Enterprise. In 2370, Beverly and Captain Picard were kidnapped by the Prytt, whilst on a diplomatic mission to Kes-Prytt Three, and are telepathically linked to each other. During their escape from their captors, Beverly learnt that Picard had fallen in love with her, while Beverly was married to Jack. But that he didn't act on his feelings because he didn't want to betray his best friend. When they are rescued and returned to the Enterprise, Picard and Beverly decide not to pursue a relationship, and preferred to remain as friends. Later that year, Beverly was severely injured by Worf, while he was under the influence of Barclay's Protomorphosis Syndrome. Beverly had also developed when a routine synthetic T-cell treatment became mutated. She was placed in stasis and required reconstructive surgery. In 2372, Beverly was re-assigned to the Enterprise-E after the destruction of the Enterprise-D a year earlier. As part of the Enterprise-E's crew, she traveled back in time to Earth in the 21st century, at the time of Zefram Cochrane's first warp flight, to stop the Borg from assimilating Earth. She brought aboard a survivor of a Borg attack on an Earth outpost, a friend of Zefram Cochrane, Lily Sloane, who was infected with Theta radiation. As the Borg began to take over the Enterprise, Beverly, with the help of the E.M.H. program, was able to rescue Lily as well as the other medical staff from sick bay. Later on in their mission, Beverly was one of three officers responsible for activating the self-destruct sequence. Picard decided to destroy the ship hoping to take the Borg with it. In 2373, Beverly, and other members of the crew of the Enterprise-E, lead an insurrection against Starfleet Admiral Dougherty and his allies, the Son'a. Their assault on the Ba'Ku, whose planet has special regenerative powers, led Beverly and the others to vacate the Ba'ku from their village, and to counter the Son'a threat. Along the way, Beverly discovered that the Ba'ku and the Son'a are in fact the same race. This piece of information helped Picard to win a friend among the Son'a, called Gallatin. Beverly reunited Gallatin with his mother, as he had been exiled from the Ba'ku planet a century before. /\ top < back