Star Trek Theory: Wesley Crusher Is Picard's Son

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Wesley Picard has a nice ring to it

Think about how Picard treats Wesley compared to other children at the beginning of "The Next Generation." In the episode "Code of Honor," he invites the kid to sit in the captain's chair, despite stating in no uncertain terms that the bridge of the Enterprise-D is a kid-free zone. Throughout the series, he takes Wesley under his wing in a way that isn't particularly warm, but is, in the context of Picard's history with interpersonal relationships, as paternal as we ever see him get.

Picard claims to hate kids, and says in "Star Trek: Picard" that Starfleet was the only family he ever needed. But we see during his trip to the Nexus in "Star Trek: Generations" that his personal fantasy involves a swarm of Victorian children giving him hugs and calling him "father." When his nephew dies, the Captain has a full-on breakdown over his inexplicably holographic photo album pictures. He's clearly a man who wants a family, but feels like he can't have one. What's the deal?

Maybe Picard feels crushing guilt, not just for having been in command the day that his best friend died, but for the secret that he kept from him: that he and Jack's wife had surreptitiously betrayed his trust, and that Picard was secretly the father of the child that Jack had been raising for five years.

Or maybe the writing on "Star Trek" has historically been pretty inconsistent and it's all a coincidence. It's one or the other. Either way, Picard is definitely never letting Wesley call him "dad."