Re: the theory of Beverly being a changeling I have been thinking about this some more 🤔 my immediate reaction was “that would be so cool but too clever for the writers tbh plus they wouldn’t do that for the emotional convo payoff”

Aaaaand then I realised that actually that kind of bait and switch is something they would probably enjoy. As they seem to have no regard for what infuriates people. They like it, so must everyone right?

So now I am pondering.

I mean can you imagine if Picard learned that Beverley hadn’t ghosted them all, that she had been a prisoner all this time, and that the guy he thought was his son, is actually not and may not even exist.

I mean we said about “how can 25th century birth control fail?” well who says it actually did. What if in the end Jack Crusher was a changeling plot, and never real? Then Picard would have to come to terms with “the son he never did actually have” which sounds like the type of Picard-centric pain the writers like. I mean let’s just ignore Elnor and all the other potential found family because blood is everything /sarcasm.