Beverly Crusher

Beverly Crusher is a major character in Star Trek: The Next Generation, played by Gates McFadden. A supercharged doctor, she serves as chief medical officer aboard the USS Enterprise in all but season 2 of the show, when she's off on Earth heading up Starfleet Medical.
She was married to the late Jack Crusher and has a son, Wesley (a classic Marty-Stu who has the distinction of being the most hated character in all Trek). Her closest associates in canon are Deanna Troi and Captain Jean-Luc Picard, with whom she has a deep friendship that often strays towards romance without ever quite reaching it. Her passionate affair with the one-off Odan leads to a night with Will Riker while he's host to the Trill's symbiont. Fans were disappointed that Beverly rejected the possibility of an f/f relationship with Odan's new female host.
In the few minutes when she's not being a doctor, she enjoys music, takes part in theatrical productions and is a mean tap dancer.
==Fan perspectives==
 
==Fanfiction==
Beverly is a fairly popular character with fanwriters. By far the most common pairing is with Picard, generally known as Picard/Crusher (despite the potential for mix-up with Wesley, ewww) or sometimes BONC (Beverly on Jean-Luc), which is probably the predominant het pairing in the TNG fandom. Fans of the P/C pairing are sometimes known as BONCers. Beverly's husband was a friend of Picard and was killed while serving under him, making for pre-series stories with abundant angst potential and the occasional threesome. Other m/f pairings are comparatively rare, though several stories explore the aftermath of her night with Will during the Odan episode.
She's also a popular participant in femslash. Crusher/Troi is one of the major f/f pairings in the fandom, and Beverly also occasionally gets paired with Katherine Pulaski, Ro Laren and women from other Trek series, notably Kathryn Janeway.
===Notable Works===
* Afterburn, by BEKi -- episode tag for the Odan episode, originally published in Number One zine (1993)
* The Speed Of Sound, by Kyra Cullinan—widely recommended Picard/Crusher (2002)
* Body Memory, by Penknife—unusual Picard & Crusher short (2004)
* Pretty To Think So, by Yahtzee—Picard/Crusher/Jack Crusher (2009)
* Wider range of examples required
==Anthology Fanzines==
* The Beverly File (3 issues; 1990–91)
* Fire and Ice (2 issues; 1998–99)
* Poems, Prayers and Promises (1986)
===Picard/Crusher===
* Asbestos Envelope (4 issues; 1989–90)
* Bedside Manners (1994)
* Naked Now (4 issues; mid 1990s)
==Fanzine==
* A Tale to Tell by Beth Schmitz
==Nonfiction==
* Beverlyophiles (1990–94) -- monthly newsletter for the Beverlyophiles fanclub
==Sample Fan Art==
 
File:Spock52-3.jpg|from Spock #52, artist is Gail Adams (1988)
File:crusherart.jpg| from Transwarp, artist is Sha'eena
File:Beverly1.jpg| from The Beverly File #1, artist is Kimberley Junius (1991)
File:Beverlyfile1-2.jpg| from The Beverly File #1, artist is Barbara Caldwell
File:Beyondfarpoint5-6.jpg| from Beyond Farpoint, artist is Jean Elizabeth Martin
File:Survivalst.jpg| from Survival , artist is Adrian Morgan (1991)
File:Eridani5.jpg| from Eridani #5, artist is Julie Nosal (1989)
File:Fedstat1art1.jpg| from Federation Standard #1, artist is Barbara Caldwell (1991)
File:Spock57-2.jpg| from Spock #57, artist is by Gail Adams (1990)
Image:makeitso7-3.jpg|from Make It So #7, artist is Ruth Mellor (1992)
File:Stag106.jpg| from Star Trek Action Group #106, artist is by Karen Crossley (1992)
==Archives and Links==
*Beverly Crusher tag at Archive of Our Own
*Beverly Crusher at FanFiction.net
*Beverly Crusher at Trekiverse
==Fansites==
* Bay's Obsessions—Picard/Crusher fansite by Bay
* The BONC Home Page—site of the Picard/Crusher mailing list, BONClassic. We're a private mailing list dedicated to just one thing: getting our favorite two Star Trek characters together in as many ways, shapes, forms and lifetimes as humanly possible.
* Beverly Crusher/Gates McFadden Webring
==Resources==
*Beverly Crusher at Memory Alpha
*Wikipedia
==References==
Category:Star Trek TNG Characters