Beverly Crusher's maternal anxiety and professional ethics vs. Wesley's secrecy and the broader parental / adolescent tension — negotiating care, trust and autonomy.
Beverly Crusher's maternal anxiety and professional ethics vs. Wesley's secrecy and the broader parental / adolescent tension — negotiating care, trust and autonomy.
Events in This Arc
In the Captain's ready room Beverly seeks out Picard not as his commander but as an old friend, confessing a sharp, maternal worry about Wesley's emotional isolation. Picard attempts officerly …
Alone in a near-empty Ten-Forward, Wesley rigs makeshift traps while Guinan quietly watches, forcing him out of avoidance. Under her steady, disarming questioning he confesses he secretly experimented with Sickbay …
In Ten-Forward Beverly shifts from anxious confessional to quietly proud mother. Over a short, intimate exchange Guinan reframes parenting as patient presence — "listening" — and Beverly watches Wesley enter …