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Dr. Beverly Howard Crusher Picard; Chief medical officer aboard the Enterprise-D under the command of Jean-Luc Picard. Crusher was born Beverly Howard in 2324, and graduated from medical school in 2350. She was at the Arvada III colony, and helped her grandmother, Felisia Howard "Sub Rosa" care for the survivors of that terrible tragedy. Although her grandmother was not a physician, she taught Beverly much about the medicinal uses of herbs and roots to help care for the sick and wounded after regular medical supplies had been exhausted. "The Arsenal of Freedom".
Beverly
was introduced to her future husband, Starfleet officer Jack
Crusher, by their mutual friend Walker Keel. "Conspiracy".
She married Jack in 2348, and the two had a child, Wesley Crusher,
the following year. As a young married couple, Beverly and her
husband Jack spent a great deal of time with Jean-Luc Picard. She did
not learn until many years later that Picard had fallen in love with
her, but he didn't act on his feelings in order to not betray his
friend. "Attached". Crusher did her internship on planet
Delos IV under the tutelage of Dr. Dalen Quaice in 2352.
"Remember Me". Following her husband's death in 2354,
Beverly continued to pursue her Starfleet career, attaining the
position of chief medical officer aboard the Enterprise-D in 2364.
"Encounter at Farpoint". Crusher left the Enterprise-D in
2365 to accept a position as head of Starfleet Medical, but returned
to the ship a year later, and was reunited with her son, Wesley.
"Evolution". In 2366, Crusher became romantically
interested in a man from planet Zalkon whom she had named John Doe.
"Transfigurations". The following year, she became involved
with a Trill named Ambassador Odan. Although the two were very much
in love, Beverly found it difficult to accept her lover inhabiting a
different body. "The Host". Beverly's grandmother, Felisia
Howard, died in 
2370,
and Beverly returned to her grandmother's home at the Caldos Colony
to speak at the funeral. Beverly discovered her grandmother had taken
a lover, apparently a 34-year-old man named Ronin, who was actually
an anaphasic life form that had been a "spirit lover" of
Howard women for 20 generations. Beverly was at first taken in by
Ronin, and even went so far as to resign from Starfleet to remain on
Caldos with him, before Beverly was forced to kill him in order to
protect her friends. "Sub Rosa".
Although a physician aboard a starship is not normally regarded as a line officer, Crusher was left in command of the Enterprise-D when virtually the entire crew was transported to the surface of a planet to search for Data in early 2369. Crusher employed the metaphasic shield technology that the ship had acquired from Dr. Reyga in order to escape a pursuing Borg ship and rescue the crew on the surface. "Descent, Part II". Later that year, Crusher was severely injured by Worf, who was under the influence of Barclay's Protomorphosis Syndrome. She was placed in stasis and required reconstructive surgery. "Genesis".
Beverly was quite an accomplished dancer. Her colleagues named her "The Dancing Doctor," a nickname she disliked, so aboard the Enterprise-D she did her best to avoid demonstrating her skills. Nevertheless, the fact that she had won first place in a dance competition in St. Louis was part of her Starfleet record, so Data asked her to help him learn to dance for the wedding of Miles O'Brien and Keiko Ishikawa in 2367. ". Beverly also had a strong interest in amateur theatrics and was director of a successful theater company aboard the Enterprise-D. Among the productions performed by her company in 2367 was Cyrano de Bergerac. "The Nth Degree". Several months later, her troupe performed Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance. "Disaster".
Crusher wrote a play for her troupe, called Something for Breakfast "A Fistful of Datas". Another play written by Crusher was entitled Frame of Mind. "Frame of Mind".