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STARFLEET PERSONNEL FILE -- Beverly C. Crusher, M.D.
Played By: Gates McFadden
Rank: Commander
Current assignment: Chief Medical Officer, U.S.S. Enterprise
(detached service upon loss of vessel in 2371)
Full Name: Beverly Cheryl Howard Crusher
Date of birth: Oct. 13, 2324
Place of birth: Copernicus City, Luna
Parents: Paul and Isabel Howard
Education: Starfleet Academy and Medical School, 2342-50
Marital status: Widowed; married Jack Crusher 2348-55
Children: One son, Wesley Robert Crusher, born July 29,
2349
Quarters: Formerly, Enterprise-D: Deck 8/Room 2133
Office: Formerly, Enterprise-D: Deck 12/Room 1629
Starfleet Career Summary
2352 -- Medical internship under Dr. Dalen Quaice, Delos IV
2363 -- Passed Bridge Officers Examination
2364 -- As commander, named Chief Medical Officer,
U.S.S. Enterprise, under Captain Jean-Luc Picard
2365 -- Headed Starfleet Medical one year
2366 -- Reassigned as Chief Medical Officer, U.S.S. Enterprise
2369 -- Temporarily relieved of duty amid Reyga incident,
then reinstated
2372 -- Transferred with remainder of Picard's senior staff
to Sovereign-class U.S.S. Enterprise
2373 -- Acted as first officer during attempt to repair
Borg temporal sabotage of Earth's first contact with an alien
race
Report of Admiral Brooks, Starfleet Medical CMO
Career Review and Proficiency
Doctor Crusher has consistently shown to be not only thorough
but conscientious in her daily work and routine. She is a superior
scientist in various fields of research medicine such as xenoimmunology,
curing or treating the so-called Tsiolkovsky virus, the airborne
virus known as Ligonese poison, and Barclay Syndrome, which she
discovered and named after its first patient. Her contributions
in practical forensic medicine have had galactic import, leading
to improved trust with the Klingon Empire after her investigation
of former Chancellor K'mpec's murder, and with the Ferengi Alliance
regarding the murder of Doctor Reyga by the Takaran rival Jo'Bril.
Unfortunately for this office, her unorthodox methods bordering
on cultural insult proved quite troublesome at times in the latter
case even though she was later exonerated.
Even so, Starfleet Medical applauds Doctor Crusher for her stand
against a lack of concern for experiment research on patients
while other treatments are still viable, citing her logs concerning
Lieutenant Worf's spinal paralysis and Doctor Toby Russell's genotronic
research. And her use of ship's phasers, of all things, to deliver
a live-born spacefaring alien as large scale Caesarean section
procedure is nothing short of ingenious.
UPDATE: SD 50900
In view of reports testifying to Doctor Crusher's actions
to care for 21st century natives aboard her vessel during temporal
maneuvers with possible Prime Directive implications, this office
finds no fault with her performance in light of the greater temporal
crisis at hand.
Psychological Profile:
Report of Ship's Counselor Deanna Troi
Although suffering her share of life tragedies, Beverly Crusher
brings to her work and her relationships a deep-rooted sense of
ethics as well as a freshness and good humor that is infectious.
Indeed, at times she has served as the glue to hold situations
together, while at other times acting as the needler to provoke
a necessary reaction or course. Doctor Crusher spent her formative
years with her grandmother, Felisa Howard, who raised her from
an early age after her mother died. In fact, it was Felisa's knowledge
of folk medicine which allowed the two Howards to be among the
few survivors of the Arvada III colony disaster - inspiring the
younger Crusher to choose medicine as her life's work. Unknown
to her at the time, Felisa was involved with an anaphasic "lover"
who derived life-affirming sustenance in return for the companionship
- a secret stretching back through generations of the family which
nearly consumed Doctor Crusher herself.
The discovery occurred only upon Felisa's death in 2370 on Caldos
IV, where they had lived after Arvada III until Crusher left her
to attend Starfleet Academy. Before those moves with Felisa, young
Beverly had spent her earliest years on Earth's North America,
which she still considers "home"; she studied tap and jazz dance
there and won several awards in competition in St. Louis. Intimate
relationships have been mostly healthy for Crusher, who suffered
with typical human growing-up angst: getting a crush on a soccer
player three years her senior, Stefan, at age 8, and dying her
naturally red hair brunette at age 13 when she fretted over teenage
popularity. 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. Her husband's death also
left a void for their son, Wesley, who had been born a year after
they married. A lieutenant at the time, Jack Crusher recorded
the first and only entry in a series of holo-tape messages to
his infant son, but she opted not to share it with Wesley until
2367. As a mother, Doctor Crusher raised a gifted, intense young
man alone, never resorting to corporal punishment until suffering
the effects of Sarek's bendaii syndrome. Astounded at the Traveler
being's prognosis for his development in 2364, she fretted later
that he was working too hard at the expense of a social life.
His role in the Nova Squadron scandal at Starfleet Academy in
2368 shocked and saddened her without affecting their basic relationship
until his departure with the Traveler two years 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. Doctor Crusher, who often serves
a night watch on the bridge, aided in the capture of the renegade
Borg under Lore in 2370 with the strategic loss of their craft
while in command of the Enterprise. She has not shirked from risk
on away missions, as when exploring the Borg ship upon Picard's
abduction in 2366. She was taken as a hostage by the Ansata terrorists
to provide their medical care on Rutia IV earlier that same year,
and was nearly captured by Cardassians with Worf on a covert raid
on Celtris III with Picard, who was taken. Ironically, she almost
died in a diminishing universe created from her own mind, thanks
to a subspace warp bubble experiment of her son gone awry.
As can be seen from the theatre masks decorating the walls of
her quarters, much of the doctor's well-rounded personality stems
from her many interests in the stage arts. Although she hid her
dance skills in later years to avoid the hated nickname of "The
Dancing Doctor" that stuck in medical school, she has actively
fostered her own acting class and theatre troupe here aboard the
Enterprise. Among the productions she has directed are "Cyrano
de Bergerac," "The Pirates of Penzance," "Frame of Mind," and
"Something for Breakfast"; her students have included Lieutenant
Barclay, a reluctant Commander LaForge, and even Commander Riker,
whose halting first scenes improved dramatically under her coaching
before culminating with his riveting performance in "Frame of
Mind." Beyond the arts, another hobby is ethnobotany, and she
can more than hold her own in poker. She is fond of fine-weave
metallic fabrics. She reports a mild fear of heights, although
this counselor has not seen it detract from either her duties
or recreation.
Counselor's update, SD 50950 review:
Having survived the second Borg invasion and its temporal
repercussions, I am pleased to review logs revealing Doctor Crusher's
clear-headed, quick-thinking actions to evacuate her patients
and as Picard's temporary XO during the ship evacuation process.
I also admire how she overcame her long-time disinclination toward
Emergency Medical Holograms to use it as a tactical tool during
the crisis.
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