Background Notes
Jack was Beverly Crusher's husband and Picard's best friend. He died under Picard's command, many years before Picard and Crusher served together on the Enterprise. During their first year (season) aboard the Enterprise, the crew contracted an illness that impaired human cognition much as alcohol does ("Naked Now"). It also made them sexually adventurous. (Love Sick)

In "Attached," Picard and Crusher are kidnapped by one of two warring factions. Devices implanted in their brain stems by their captors enable them to read each other's minds. These devices also force them to stay in close physical proximity or suffer terrible pain. They escape and flee across open land, their connection growing ever stronger, trying to reach the energy barrier that separates the bad guy's territory from the good guy's. They are chased the last few hundred yards. At the energy barrier, Beverly works frantically to interrupt the energy flow so that they can slip through. She succeeds for a brief moment, which she uses to shove Picard to safety. The energy field snaps back into place, separating them, as two guards grab her. They share a long look through the barrier before Enterprise beams her to safety. (Attached)

During First Contact, which is set mostly on Earth in the past, Picard, angered by a conversation with Lily, broke the conference room's glass display case--which was filled with 'other ships named Enterprise--by slamming a compression phaser rifle into it. He was having a Captain Ahab sort of day and Lily called him on it--which, as all good P/Cers know, was Beverly's job. Hmph. (Smashed)

In Nemesis, Janeway is an admiral who appears briefly on a screen to issue new orders to Picard. I assume that she is the admiral directly in charge of the Enterprise, Picard's direct superior, and that she had given/approved his orders just before the movie started. I also make the assumption that, since Voyager's return (1 year and 7 months before Nemesis), she has socialzed with Picard and Crusher at 'Fleet functions. Further, Seven is on Earth, still in contact with Janeway, and Crusher and Janeway have known each other for a long time--possibly from the academy. (Friends and Allies)

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Coming Down with a Bad Case of Humanity
J/7; 1st person, Seven of Nine.

No. She waits, grey eyes steady, red-bronze hair curling against jaw. Small hand squeezes my bicep. My captain, my collective. I will comply. "Yes, Captain."



The Bitter End
J/7, crew; 1st person, 7of9. Post-Endgame. Setting: A ceremony marking Voyager's return.

Standing before us, our captain, dressed in full admiral's regalia, speaks. "I will not say goodbye today, though our journey brings us to a parting . . ."



"I am become a name."
J/crew; 3rd person. Post-Endgame. Setting: same as above. Quote from Tennyson's "Ulysses."

She stood, gazing at the crowd, mostly people she’d never seen, polite applause a physical distance between her and her crew. She left the stage.



Love Sick
P/C; 3rd person, omniscient

He returned Jack's body. He loved her; she grieved.

His CMO, she admitted she wanted him to tend her needs. But she found a cure.



- "Now that we know how we feel, maybe we shouldn't be afraid to explore those feelings." - "Or maybe we should be." -
P/C; 3rd person, omniscient. Quote from "Attached."

Mentally linked by kidnappers, they knew their feelings. She sacrificed herself for him. Enterprise was able to rescue her. He asked, but she was afraid.



The Other Woman
P/Vash, P/C; 3rd person, omniscient

She found her in his quarters when she arrived for breakfast. He flaunted this Vash, this woman who used people, used him, rejected his love.



The Extraneous
C/Odan, P/C; 3rd person, omniscient

She dallied with Odan, the Trill, whose deception caught up with him. He supported her as Odan slipped away. Into Riker, then, a Trill female.



Not Another Man
P/C; 3rd person, omniscient

She inherited more than the Howard libido from her grandmother. When It came for her, tried to take her, he intervened. He brought her home.



Harmony Interrupted
P/Nella; 3rd person, omniscient.

Nella was his accompanist--on more than piano. She spoke frostily but healed injured Nella. Because risking Nella's life scared him, he sent her away.



What She Was Going to Say
P/C; 3rd person, omniscient

He can't count the times she's said, "There's something I've been meaning to tell you," then stopped, or more rarely, was interrupted. But he knows.



"It all makes perfect sense . . ."
P/C; 3rd person, omniscient. Quote is from episode in question, "Remember Me."

When she was trapped in a warp bubble and her shrinking universe was only what she imagined it, he was the last one to disappear.



Irumodic Syndrom P/C; 3rd person, omniscient

She hates to tell him. This disease affects the mind. He comforts her. She perches on his desk, leans down. They kiss. She won't remember.



"The past is the future! The future is the past--"
P/C; 3rd person, omniscient. Quote is from episode in question, "All Good Things . . ."

He is in his past, his future. Certain this is real, knowing it's a trick. She's his wife--she was--she will. . .She's a captain.



Beverly Looks and Looks Back
P/C; 3rd person, omniscient. Setting: "All Good Things . . .," Picard's future.

She sees him, remembers 50 years of knowing him, serving under him, loving him. She wonders--can't ask--what he remembers. His answer is her.



Poker Night "and the Sky's the Limit."
P/C; 3rd person, omniscient. Takes up where canon left off at series end.

He's back, having saved humanity again. All in a day's work. Realizing what you have and what you could lose is not. He wagers everything.



Folding
P/C; 3rd person, omniscient

She hasn't lived to see the disease, thief in the night, gradually steal him away; otherwise, she'd be too scared to be afraid of "yes".



Beverly without Fear
P/C; 3rd person, omniscient. Setting: Generations, the nexxus.

Christmas with the children. His wife isn't Beverly but she looks like her. He has memories that they're alike in all other ways. Except one.



The Riker Maneuver
P/C; 3rd person, omniscient. Setting: Post-Generations

The crash scared her. She fought to stay with him instead of being promoted to Starfleet Medical. He asked why. She asked for some time.



Smashed
P/C; 1st person, Dr. Beverly Crusher, CMO, Enterprise-E. Setting: Shortly after First Contact.

*swish* Glass under boots. "Captain . . ." Battle didn't destroy the case. I heard it breaking from the bridge. I don't know when we broke. "I'm requesting . . ."



Don't Mess with the Fearless
P/C; 3rd person, omniscient. Setting: Shortly before Insurrection

She'd retire with a fat pension, she threatened. Command was furious, but helpless. They sent her back. Again.

Beverly was ready, but not for retirement.



Fed-up Redhead
P/C; 3rd person, omniscient. Setting: Just after Insurrection

He's had another woman. Any lingering fear consumed by temper, she knows what she wants and, unlike him, won't wait a decade to take it.



Friends and Allies
VOY, TNG; J/7; Beverly speaks. Setting: Post-Endgame, just before Nemesis.

"My so-called 'interpretation' is factual, Seven. I know Janeway. I can see that she cares for you. Don’t waste as much time as I did."



And After Coffee . . .
J/7; 1st person. Setting: Restaurant in San Francisco, a year after Nemesis.

I dressed her in red. It's her favorite; I like looking like a couple. "Ready to go? There’s something I’ve been meaning to ask you . . ."



Strange Times: The Admiral and the Cadet
J/7; 1st person, Picard. Setting: at home, a reunion after a mission

The admiral, on her companion's lap, laughs. She commanded once, yet I know the stoic cadet better. We've shared thoughts, but that's not the reason.

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