**Simster’s **take is mine as well, with perhaps a subtext of: Beverly could have chosen Jack or Picard, and chose Jack, and now Jack is dead (and Pircard feels guilty) so Picard doesn’t feel right to court her/have a relationship.
I also felt similar to Tom Tildrum regarding the nonviolence thing for Guinan’s people vs the Borg - if you can’t reason with or empathize away an implacable enemy, then running and scattering is pretty much the only option left. That and perhaps hoping that someone more bloodthirsty than you will come along and do them in…
IIRC, Beverly Crusher was blue-eyed, like Jack Crusher, and Wesley was brown-eyed, like Jean-Luc Picard; whether that’s a subtle hint or a casting mistake, I dunno.
Picard certainly felt a fatherly obligation to Wesley because the deceased father was a friend and fellow officer. But his ability to deal with children was always hilariously poor. Had he been Wesley’s real father, he would have made a more thorough effort. Picard was pretty much not interested in sex and I would say asexual.
What you say makes sense, but what would that have to do with the threatening hand gestures? Not to be really snide about it, but what was her “body language” saying?
Something like: “Q, you may destroy me with your power, but just before that instant I’ll make you realize what a jerk you realllly are!” :dubious: