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Originally Posted by BenMcr
The actor is 34, so he's doing well  |
Ah, well there’s the answer then.
In-universe and in real life, Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2 aired/occurred 34 years ago. The season Dr Crusher missed because she was spending a year ‘working at Starfleet Medical’. She left without fanfare and returned without comment after a year away.
They didn’t start developing the on-screen relationship between Crusher and Picard until much later, however there is a first season episode, The Naked Now (S1 E3) in which … well … this happened:
The Naked Now is a sequel to an original series episode, The Naked Time, so if that’s where they’ve taken this they are very deep into backstory indeed.
(In real life Gates McFadden wasn’t getting on with the show’s lead writer and had really left the series, until the producers managed to coax her back).
*If* any of this is close to the mark, Crusher cut off contact with her former Enterprise friends when her son entered his mid-teens and presumably, if he’d been adopted away, managed to track her down, demand her attention or something of the sort.