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Introduced in Star Trek: Picard season 3, Jack Crusher, the son of Admiral Jean-Luc Picard and Dr. Beverly Crusher, gained attention for his British accent. Jack lacks the British accent, though, when he meets his older half-brother Wesley Crusher in Star Trek: Prodigy season 2. Though it's not a mistake, this disparity has caused some audience uncertainty.
Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard found Beverly and Jack moved to London following the events of Star Trek: Nemesis, and Jack developed the British accent during this period. But Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 occurs before this move, mostly on Cor Coroli V, where the Crushers are building their house. By now in the chronology, young Jack would not have had the chance to acquire the British accent. This is a vital element that helps to explain Jack's accent's apparently contradicting representation in several shows.
Jack Crusher's age remains somewhat of a secret even while his British accent is explained. Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard shows that Beverly gave birth to Jack sometime following Star Trek: Nemesis (2379), so establishing his birth year between 2380 and 2381. Given Star Trek: Picard season 3's 2401 setting, he would be roughly 20 years old. Jack is often thought to be older, though; Admiral Picard even notes his age to be 24.
Jack's great spatial experience helps to explain this apparent age difference. The expanse of space and its particular difficulties might have hastened his maturation, giving him an older than chronological age appearance. Still, one should keep in mind that environments and space travel can profoundly affect a person's sense of time.
Rising to the level of a Traveler, Wesley Crusher can move across space, time, even realities. This begs the issue of why Wesley missed Jack's Borg connection, especially given their Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 meeting.
Jack inherited organic Borg DNA from his father, Jean-luc Picard, thanks to his assimilation into the Borg collective in season three of Star Trek. For Jack, this Borg link showed up as repeated nightmares, which finally helped him to be absorbed by the Borg Queen.
Wesley as a Traveler is aware of a great lot of cosmic knowledge, but his priorities might be on preserving the universe as whole. With particular people maybe under the protection of their Supervisors, the Traveler's main goal might be to ensure the safety of space, time, and reality. This would help to explain Wesley's lack direct awareness of Jack's Borg fate.
On the other hand, Wesley might have had a limited view of Jack's future but trusted in Jean-luc Picard's capacity to mentor him. Jack overcame his Borg connection thanks in great part to Picard's love and relentless support, so bringing about the destruction of the Borg. This would imply that Wesley knew Jack would be overcome by Picard's love and would thus know his Borg destiny.
Jack Crusher's character's complexity and his relationship with Wesley present interesting avenues for next development. The Star Trek universe keeps growing, thus we might learn more about the interactions between these two brothers and the cosmic forces guiding their life.