Pop Culture References in Wizard101: Empyrea – Crusher

Crusher – Doctor Beverly Crusher
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Crusher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Crusher

Your wizard asks Crusher for help with finding the storm jewel in order to repair the broken ship. Crusher is happy to help with defeating the powerful Caleban. Crusher hates Caleban. Caleban threw her out of the tribe and threw their son Wezlee into a Monkey Spider cave.

Beverly Crusher is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise played by Gates McFadden. Debuting in the television series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, McFadden appeared in every season except for the second, as well as its spin-off feature films: Star Trek Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek: Nemesis. McFadden returned to the role in the third season of Star Trek: Picard.

Crusher was the chief medical officer of the Enterprise-D and Enterprise-E, two starships in the Star Trek universe.

Gates McFadden was reluctant to accept the role of Dr. Crusher because of her commitment to appear in the play The Matchmaker at the La Jolla Playhouse. During the second season, the character was written out of the series, with the explanation that she “was off heading up Starfleet Medical for the year.” Producer Rick Berman has said that McFadden left due to her disputes with the head TNG writer at the time, Maurice Hurley. She was replaced by the louder, more opinionated Dr. Katherine Pulaski (Diana Muldaur). Patrick Stewart was upset by McFadden’s departure and played a large part in bringing about her return after Hurley left at the end of the second season.

The current list of all the (known) Empyrea references can be found here.

Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.

Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages

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