In “Seventeen Seconds,” the most recent episode of “Star Trek: Picard,” it’s revealed Picard and Dr. Crusher did certainly consummate their relationship, a lot to their mutual chagrin. Picard talked about in an earlier episode that he and Beverly tried to instigate a romantic relationship about 5 time so far, and it merely by no means took. One can have a look at every character and see how a relationship can be good … and simply as instantly how it will be a nasty concept. With two highly effective, clever individuals, neither would essentially wish to cede to the opposite. They complemented one another properly as colleagues, however would not essentially mesh exterior the purview of Starfleet. 

When Crusher and Picard lastly confront each other in “Seventeen Seconds,” it is an outpouring of animosity. Because it seems, the final time Picard and Crusher noticed one another was over 20 years earlier than throughout an ill-fated sexual tryst. Beverly grew to become pregnant together with her son, Jack, and by no means needed to inform Picard about his existence. Jack (Ed Speelers) is now grown, and travels the galaxy together with his mother distributing drugs to worlds exterior of the Federation. 

Why did not Beverly name Jean-Luc? Why aren’t they married or residing collectively as a household unit? Because it so occurs, it was Picard’s profession — and it is propensity for fixed disaster — that drove a wedge between them. Beverly says that she was capable of shield her personal son, however the son of a well-known Starfleet admiral who is commonly kidnapped or in mortal peril? Not really easy. Picard is of course upset that Dr. Crusher saved the key from him, saying that he can’t be penalized for his absentee fatherhood when he was by no means instructed he had a toddler.