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, Felicia 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. 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 CMO 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 was quite an accomplished dancer. Her colleauges 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 competiton 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 has 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, the troupe performed Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penazance. Crusher wrote a play for her troupe, called Something For Breakfast. Another play written by Crusher was entitled Frame of Mind.