
2352 -- Medical internship under Dr. Dalen Quaice, Delos IV
2363 -- Passed Bridge Officers Examination
2364 -- As commander, named Chief Medical Officer, U.S.S. Enterprise, under Captain Jean-Luc Picard
2365 -- Headed Starfleet Medical one year
2366 -- Reassigned as Chief Medical Officer, U.S.S. Enterprise
2369 -- Temporarily relieved of duty amid Reyga incident, then reinstated
2372 -- Transferred with remainder of Picard's senior staff to Sovereign-class U.S.S. Enterprise
2373 -- Acted as first officer during attempt to repair Borg temporal sabotage of Earth's first contact with an alien race
Report of Admiral Brooks, Starfleet Medical CMO Career Review and Proficiency
Doctor Crusher has consistently shown to
be not only thorough but conscientious in her daily work and routine. She
is a
superior scientist in various fields of
research medicine such as xenoimmunology, curing or treating the so-called
Tsiolkovsky virus, the airborne virus known
as Ligonese poison, and Barclay Syndrome, which she discovered and named
after its first patient. Her contributions
in practical forensic medicine have had galactic import, leading to improved
trust with
the Klingon Empire after her investigation
of former Chancellor K'mpec's murder, and with the Ferengi Alliance regarding
the
murder of Doctor Reyga by the Takaran rival
Jo'Bril. Unfortunately for this office, her unorthodox methods bordering
on
cultural insult proved quite troublesome
at times in the latter case even though she was later exonerated.
Even so, Starfleet Medical applauds Doctor
Crusher for her stand against a lack of concern for experiment research
on
patients while other treatments are still
viable, citing her logs concerning Lieutenant Worf's spinal paralysis and
Doctor Toby
Russell's genotronic research. And her
use of ship's phasers, of all things, to deliver a live-born spacefaring
alien as large
scale Caesarean section procedure is nothing
short of ingenious.
UPDATE: SD 50900
In view of reports testifying to Doctor
Crusher's actions to care for 21st century natives aboard her vessel during
temporal
maneuvers with possible Prime Directive
implications, this office finds no fault with her performance in light
of the greater
temporal crisis at hand.
Psychological Profile: Report of Ship's Counselor Deanna Troi
Although suffering her share of life tragedies,
Beverly Crusher brings to her work and her relationships a deep-rooted
sense of
ethics as well as a freshness and good
humor that is infectious. Indeed, at times she has served as the glue to
hold
situations together, while at other times
acting as the needler to provoke a necessary reaction or course.
Doctor Crusher spent her formative years
with her grandmother, Felisa Howard, who raised her from an early age after
her
mother died. In fact, it was Felisa's knowledge
of folk medicine which allowed the two Howards to be among the few survivors
of the Arvada III colony disaster - inspiring
the younger Crusher to choose medicine as her life's work. Unknown to her
at the
time, Felisa was involved with an anaphasic
"lover" who derived life-affirming sustenance in return for the companionship
- a
secret stretching back through generations
of the family which nearly consumed Doctor Crusher herself.
The discovery occurred only upon Felisa's
death in 2370 on Caldos IV, where they had lived after Arvada III until
Crusher left
her to attend Starfleet Academy. Before
those moves with Felisa, young Beverly had spent her earliest years on
Earth's
North America, which she still considers
"home"; she studied tap and jazz dance there and won several awards in
competition in St. Louis. Intimate relationships
have been mostly healthy for Crusher, who suffered with typical human
growing-up angst: getting a crush on a
soccer player three years her senior, Stefan, at age 8, and dying her naturally
red
hair brunette at age 13 when she fretted
over teenage popularity.
It was her marriage to Lt. Cmdr. Jack Crusher
that provided the major trauma of her adult life when he died on an away
team
mission off the U.S.S. Stargazer under
Captain Jean-Luc Picard in 2355. Before their wedding on July 20, 2348,
during her
medical schooling, the future Crushers
had dated for several months until he finally proposed by sending her the
book "How
To Advance Your Career Through Marriage."
The two had first been introduced by Walker Keel, who with Jack had been
Picard's closest friend during their early
years in Starfleet; ironically, her relationship with Jack followed an
intense but brief
affair that had already run its course.
The new couple and Picard became close friends
during those years the men served on Picard's U.S.S. Stargazer. The
captain later accompanied her to the Starbase
32 morgue to view Jack's corpse, but it was not until years later again
-
again, in 2370 - that Picard confirmed
her suspicion that he too was attracted to her, thanks to a telepathic
linkage while
held as spies on Kesprytt. Picard had denied
there would be any personal problems when she signed aboard the U.S.S.
Enterprise as his CMO in 2364 at Farpoint
Station, but in reality both knew they shared a latent interest in each
other by the
time of the Tsiolkovsky virus epidemic
that brought it out only a few weeks later.
Her husband's death also left a void for
their son, Wesley, who had been born a year after they married. A lieutenant
at the
time, Jack Crusher recorded the first and
only entry in a series of holo-tape messages to his infant son, but she
opted not to
share it with Wesley until 2367. As a mother,
Doctor Crusher raised a gifted, intense young man alone, never resorting
to
corporal punishment until suffering the
effects of Sarek's bendaii syndrome. Astounded at the Traveler being's
prognosis for
his development in 2364, she fretted later
that he was working too hard at the expense of a social life. His role
in the Nova
Squadron scandal at Starfleet Academy in
2368 shocked and saddened her without affecting their basic relationship
until his
departure with the Traveler two years later.
In her later years Dr. Crusher had another
intimate yet short-lived relationship with the Joined Trill ambassador
Odan, and
had displayed affection for an evolving
Zalkon called "John Doe" and visiting historian Berlinghoff Rasmussen -
the latter only
until his time-traveling story turned out
to be a hoax.
Doctor Crusher, who often serves a night
watch on the bridge, aided in the capture of the renegade Borg under Lore
in 2370
with the strategic loss of their craft
while in command of the Enterprise. She has not shirked from risk on away
missions, as
when exploring the Borg ship upon Picard's
abduction in 2366. She was taken as a hostage by the Ansata terrorists
to
provide their medical care on Rutia IV
earlier that same year, and was nearly captured by Cardassians with Worf
on a covert
raid on Celtris III with Picard, who was
taken. Ironically, she almost died in a diminishing universe created from
her own
mind, thanks to a subspace warp bubble
experiment of her son gone awry.
As can be seen from the theatre masks decorating
the walls of her quarters, much of the doctor's well-rounded personality
stems from her many interests in the stage
arts. Although she hid her dance skills in later years to avoid the hated
nickname of "The Dancing Doctor" that stuck
in medical school, she has actively fostered her own acting class and theatre
troupe here aboard the Enterprise. Among
the productions she has directed are "Cyrano de Bergerac," "The Pirates
of
Penzance," "Frame of Mind," and "Something
for Breakfast"; her students have included Lieutenant Barclay, a reluctant
Commander LaForge, and even Commander Riker,
whose halting first scenes improved dramatically under her coaching
before culminating with his riveting performance
in "Frame of Mind."
Beyond the arts, another hobby is ethnobotany,
and she can more than hold her own in poker. She is fond of fine-weave
metallic fabrics. She reports a mild fear
of heights, although this counselor has not seen it detract from either
her duties or
recreation.
Counselor's update, SD 50950 review:
Having survived the second Borg invasion
and its temporal repercussions, I am pleased to review logs revealing Doctor
Crusher's clear-headed, quick-thinking
actions to evacuate her patients and as Picard's temporary XO during the
ship
evacuation process.
I also admire how she overcame her long-time
disinclination toward Emergency Medical Holograms to use it as a tactical
tool during the crisis.

