PERSONNEL FILE: FEDERATION

NAME: Crusher, Dr. Beverly
RANK: Commander
BORN: 2324
PLACE OF BIRTH: not on file
ORIGIN: Human
ASSIGNMENT: U.S.S. Enterprise-E
LAST SHIP: U.S.S. Enterprise-D
ACADEMY CLASS: 2350
BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS: 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, Felisa Howard 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. Beverly was introduced to her future husband, Starfleet officer Jack Crusher, by their mutual friend Walker Keel. 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. Crusher did her internship on planet Delos IV under the tutelage of Dr. Dalen Quaice in 2352. 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. 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. In 2366, Crusher became romantically interested in a man from planet Zalkon whom she had named John Doe. 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. Beverly's grandmother, Felisa 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. 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 which the ship had aquired from Dr. Reyga in order to escape a pursuing Borg ship and rescue the crew on the surface. 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. 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. Several months later, her troupe performed Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance. Crusher wrote a play for her troupe, called Something for Breakfast. Another play written by Crusher was entitled Frame of Mind.
ACHIEVEMENTS, AWARDS: not on file
FAMILY: Husband, Jack R. Crusher, deceased; Son, Wesley Crusher, whereabouts not on file.