His duty is to his crew, not to some random kid he didn’t even want to pick up. It’s not like Jean-Luc is the same person he was even just at the beginning of this series.īack on the Titan, Captain Shaw is ready and willing to hand Jack over to Vadic, and it’s not a great look. Maybe this streak has always been there, but it just needed something - perhaps wanting to protect her son - to bring it to the surface. In “Remember Me,” she refuses to back down when she’s the only one who can remember the disappearing crew. Crusher risks her career, her Starfleet commission, even her life to prove that a man was murdered. Or is it? She certainly acts like a different person, willing to cut corners and break the law, but the reason she’s doing it is to help people, and we’ve seen that before. “Who do you think taught me to do it?” Jack responds, confirming that this is a different Beverly than the one we knew. He wants to know whether this is really Bev’s son - even though, let’s face it, he knows Jack is Beverly’s and his own child (something Riker hilariously needles him about) - since he believes she would never allow Jack to act the way he has. Shaw suggested Jack might be lying about his parentage, and Jean-Luc tests that in their conversation. It turns out that Jack has a record as long as his arm - something that isn’t all that surprising, but what is eye-opening is the frank conversation he has with Jean-Luc from inside the brig. What is Vadic after? (Jack Crusher.) Why? (God only knows.) Once they’re back on the Titan, they have some time to sort things out. There are a lot of antics at the beginning of the episode as Jean-Luc, Will, Jack, and an unconscious Bev try to work out what exactly is going on. I have a feeling we’re going to see Jack grow up a lot, maybe with an assist from good old Papa Picard, over the course of this season. As he tries to protect his mother, though, Jack is now learning the other side of it - that he can lose (a lesson Jean-Luc learned all too well after a Nausicaan stabbed him through the heart). He acts like the younger Jean-Luc we saw in the TNG episode “Tapestry,” and you can see that beloved Picard arrogance vibrating through him in the opening flashback. The thing is that it was clear that Jack is Jean-Luc’s son when he was introduced. I cannot convey in words how excited this makes me - and that he’s Beverly’s son too!? The drama’s going to be good. I’ve been waiting for this ever since Star Trek: Generations, when Jean-Luc noted, bitterly after his brother and nephew tragically died in a fire, “Now there will be no more Picards.” But now there is another Picard, someone new to tend the family vineyards. Yes, we now have ourselves a secret-son plot, and I am here for it. Premiere episode “ The Next Generation” laid out a lot of questions for this season, and second episode “Disengage” is already giving us some answers, including this doozy: Jack Crusher is Jean-Luc Picard’s son. Photo: Vulture Photo: Trae Patton/Paramount+
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