Transcript of original advert for the character in 1986
BEVERLY CRUSHER - Leslie's 35 year old mother. She serves as the chief medical officer on the Enterprise. If it were not for her intelligence, personality, beauty and the fact that she has a natural walk of a striptease queen, captain Picard might not have agreed to her request that Leslie observe bridge activities; therefore letting her daughter's intelligence carry events further.
To persist at least initially with the female TV stereotype, Beverly's first words in Star Trek were "Actually, we were about to do some shopping".
I don't know about striptease queens, but it seems to me like Gates' character gait has an invisible tightrope walk down the corridor in Remember Me with Dr Quaice away from the transporter room, also in Suspicions when Beverly starts "digging around again" as she approaches Data and then before exchanging words "as a friend" with Riker.
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