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Star Trek: Picard Season 3 is getting closer and closer.
We’ve got questions about the return of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s cast.
Specifically, What Is Beverly Crushers Secret In Picard Season 3? We know Gates McFadden is returning to the role of Doctor Beverly Crusher, and something is going on.
Additionally, does this relate to her relationship with Jean-Luc Picard?
Today we’ll dive into how we think Doctor Crusher’s Dark Secret is related to Picard’s SECRET Child!
As a heads up, we’re going off of some leaked content and breaking news for Star Trek: Picard Season 3. So slight spoiler warning as we’ll be discussing material related to the upcoming season.
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While discussing the upcoming third season, cryptic hints were given away. For starters, it would seem the characters haven’t seen each other for 20 to 25 years.
That is a very large time difference. But is Beverly hiding something related to Jean-Luc?
Before we explore where Doctor Crusher is, where did we see her last? Some would say she has vanished off the face of the earth in future Star Trek stories.
I’d even go as far as to say the movies didn’t make that much use of her. Showrunner Terry Matalas has even stated that Crusher will get more character development in Season 3.
Rewinding to Star Trek: Nemesis. This was the final TNG movie with the cast and meant to be the send-off for the crew. In reality, all the crew mostly split off and went their ways.
Doctor Crusher was stationed on the USS Enterprise-E at the time. But that’s all we know in canon currently.
However, her fate at the movie’s end is up for debate. Specifically, a deleted scene for the movie would give her more of a future. The deleted scene confirmed Crusher returned to head up Starfleet Medical once again.
Sadly these scenes were cut for the final film. Therefore, canonically, her life after Star Trek: Nemesis remains undisclosed.
According to Gates McFadden, Picard and Crusher will see each other again after 25 years.
That would also suggest a time jump from Star Trek: Picard Season 2.
However, these dates could be averages, as suggested earlier. McFadden has stated Dr Crusher is “older and wiser” now.
Speaking to TrekMovie, Terry Matalas explained that Season 3 sees Crusher be an important part of the story.
“I would say certainly Beverly Crusher takes a back seat in those Star Trek films. And the pitch for season 3 was always the first person you see is Beverly Crusher… in an unexpected way,"
"because it’s been 25 years and no one’s really the same person after that amount of time. But it was just a great jumping-off point… I always felt that [Beverly] was a giant portion of his life, his best friend Jack Crusher. "
"I always loved that mythology and those relationships. And so if you’re going to do the final story of Captain Picard it feels like that would play a big part.”
One of the rampant theories about Star Trek: Picard Season 3 is what has gone on between Jean-Luc and Dr Crusher.
Sir Patrick Stewart has teased what the characters will discuss in the upcoming season. This was during an interview with TV Insider over the SDCC 2022 weekend. He said the following:
“The discussions are often of a personal nature, a family nature”
Sir Patrick is teasing fans here.
He could not reveal more of that when pressed for an explanation during the interview. However, during an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the Star Trek legend hinted are more.
Sir Patrick has stated that Jean-Luc Picard will have a secret history being acknowledged as well.
““Picard & Crusher have had this very particular love relationships, very strong, very unique. It’s almost Shakespearean to me. It’s almost like the sonnet, ‘that look upon tempests but is never shaken’. I’ve always thought that, but to actually be in a situation where we have to rediscover and re-analyse ‘how do we feel about each other’”
It would appear that both Picard and Beverly Crusher have some sort of secret history. We know that Star Trek has always teased a romantic relationship between the pair.
However, they’ve never fully gone there. Another Star Trek: Nemesis deleted scene hinted that something was growing between the pair.
Sir Patrick also hinted at there being tension between the characters.
Perhaps this also goes towards Beverly as well. I mean, all we have to do is look back at TNG’s All Good Things.
The future showed Picard’s relationship with Crusher was strained at the best of times. However, perhaps this will hint at what is coming up. Terry said,
“You will see conflict with some of these characters. And to me, that’s just great drama. There is a moment where Riker and Picard have a very strong disagreement about tactically what to do in a specific situation."
"And I love it. I love seeing the later part of a chapter where Riker was a protégé of Picard. What happens if those roles are switched in a way that Riker has to make a call that Picard does not agree with? I want to see those conversations.”
Another favourite fan theory is if Jean-Luc Picard and Beverly Crusher have had a child. It’s something that keeps coming up again and again.
However, when we look at the comments by the actors over the last few months, this theory might turn out to be true. We’ve already had a tease from other sources that Picard might have a secret son.
The Illuminerdi reported in July 2021 that Jean-Luc Picard would have a secret son in the third season.
They also revealed details about Picard’s supposed secret son. This was before we learned about the third season details and that Gates McFadden would return as Doctor Crusher.
Now we’re assuming that Doctor Beverly Crusher is the mother of Picard’s son. However, as others have pointed out, there are a few other contenders.
First, we could simply have a random person. Although, a character like Anij, the Ba’Ku woman in Star Trek: Insurrection, could be running. Additionally, might we know the actor who is playing Picard’s son?
Trek Central reported on July 18th that Ed Speeler would appear in Star Trek: Picard Season 3.
The actor is well known for his roles in Downton Abbey and Outlander. Speeler’s casting agent revealed that he would be in the upcoming season. References to Speeler’s appearance have now been removed online.
Aged 34, Ed Speeler fits the casting description for Picard’s son.
As The Illuminerdi reported, the casting sheet for the role of the son indicates he should be in his 20s.
This could also build into Gates McFadden’s comments about the characters not seeing each other for 20-25 years. Perfect timeframe to hide a secret love child.
Illuminerdi has previously been accurate in casting reports for various Star Trek shows. Such as Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Prodigy.
However, the idea may have changed since the initial report and the wrap of season 3. We’ll eventually learn more with the upcoming season in 2023.
However, right now, it does appear that this could be Beverly Crushers Secret In Picard Season 3.
You get what i meant there!
In the extended canon, told through Star Trek books, before the series of Star Trek: Picard would ever be developed, we knew Jean-Luc had a son.
Rene Jacques Robert Francois Picard was born aboard the USS Enterprise-E in 2381. His parents were Jean-Luc Picard and Doctor Beverly Crusher. Thus, this made him the half-brother of Wesley Crusher.
As the name suggests, he was named in honour of Robert, Jean-Luc’s brother, and Rene, Jean-Luc’s nephew. Both perished around the time of Star Trek: Generations.
Due to timeline shenanigans, the book's canon does exist in a splinter timeline. As the authors of these novels cleaned things up during the CODA trilogy of books.
Perhaps Star Trek: Picard Season 3 will draw from the book story? It is certainly possible. And it looks like Ed Speelers may be the man to play the role of Picard and Crusher's son, especially if it has been all this time since both saw each other. Picard may have a son.
Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard sounds fantastic. The actors, actresses, and series creatives speak very highly of it. Gates McFadden herself has also spoken very highly of the material coming up in Season 3 of the show.
Speaking at SDCC 2022, she said the following.
“I will say this script for Season 3 of “Picard”, I think it’s the best stuff my character has ever had on a “Star Trek” show, so I was thrilled about it and i hope the fans will be too, "
" there’s a lot of unexpected things that happen, there’s a lot of unresolved issues between Picard and Crusher.”
While people may think Season 3 is a Next Generation reunion, that is not the case. As Sir Patrick has pointed out, this is a story narrative. It’s not a walk down memory lane.
So it would appear that we should expect twists and turns for the upcoming third and final season of Star Trek: Picard.
Right now it seems like Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard is shaping up to be the very best of the series. This is also the final season of the series.
Once it’s finished, that’s it. Also, while it sucks to say it, this is likely the last time we’ll see The Next Generation cast in character in live-action. As such, it is only right that they get sent off in style for their last adventure.
Terry Matalas has also shared this idea. Comparing the upcoming season with The Original Series movie, The Undiscovered Country.
Matalas stated that he felt like the TNG characters never got there due finale. This being as Star Trek: Nemesis didn’t feel like the end. He originally hoped the characters would get their Undiscovered Country sendoff.
That’s what we’re looking at here. Each character will reportedly play a major part and tie up story arcs that go back 30 years. My, Terry really is good at teasing us, isn’t he?
Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard arrives in early 2023. We’re currently expecting the main trailer to arrive on September 8th, to coincide with Star Trek Day, or at New York Comic Con later this year.
Either way, it is an exciting time to be a Star Trek fan! Let us know what you think of todays theory in the video comment section below.
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