• Azathoth
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    829 days ago

    Sarek is on there. Really. Sarek. The first one. Sarek was an awful dad to at minimum three children.

    • Blackout
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      229 days ago

      Well he did convince Kirk to go rescue his son after they shot him into a planet. That’s big dad love there.

      • Azathoth
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        Yep, I fully agree. At the tail end of Sarek’s life we learn he loved Spock. He doesn’t tell or show Spock ever, which would qualify him as a terrible parent by human standards but he’s a Vulcan so maybe that’s not how he should be judged. What Sarek also doesn’t do is end his feud with Spock which I think is a perfectly good standard on which to judge a Vulcan parent. So while I love Sarek as a character he’s a bad dad.

        • @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
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          79 days ago

          He told his wife not to show love for Spock, even though she was allowed to openly love Burnham. That’s child abuse.

  • @AGD4@lemmy.world
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    399 days ago

    Lmao. Somehow Paris with his bastardized mutant offspring qualifies him as a better dad than Worf.

  • @mercano@lemmy.world
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    219 days ago

    Rom inspired his son to enter into a very successful career, just probably not in the way he would have liked. Then Nog inspired Rom to change career tracks and become a station engineer, so I guess it all worked out.

  • Cris
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    209 days ago

    Wait, is worf a bad dad? I’m not super deep in the fandom…

    • @aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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      319 days ago

      He tried, but he kinda failed and never went out of his way to make up for it despite having multiple opportunities. Not a bad person, just a bad father.

      • @kaitco@lemmy.world
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        219 days ago

        To be fair, it’s not like he purposefully planned for Alexander. He was just sort of thrust upon him and he wasn’t in a position to really adapt well.

      • @jaybone@lemmy.world
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        29 days ago

        Also his kid was kind of… I don’t know, special?

        I’m trying to figure out who Riley’s kid was?

    • @MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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      He’s not entirely terrible in the episodes where his son appears. But Worf has been in around a dozen seasons of Star Trek (TNG, DS9, TNG Movies), and his son has been in like 3 episodes.

      There’s reasonable TV production reasons for this, but it’s one of those oversights that feels really glaring on a second watch through.

      So mathematically, Worf is the worst absent father imaginable.

    • data1701d
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      At one point, Worf dumps Alexander with Worf’s adopted human parents because he feels like he can’t take care of Alexander (with the stimulus being his struggle to handle his son’s misbehavior at school), and Alexander has a really difficult time.

  • @chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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    119 days ago

    Worf: Why would I even be considered?

    Alexander: Happy Father’s Day, Dad!

    Worf: Ah! Who let you out of the room?! Get out of here before anyone sees you

    • Lwaxana TroiOP
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      18 hours ago

      what he had

      The full support and resources of star fleet and the federation?

  • @askryan
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    58 days ago

    Real M’Benga erasure here

    • Corgana
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      You’re right. The artifacts on the jpeg are evidence this meme was pre-SNW. It needs an update!

  • @Jaccident
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    28 days ago

    We saw 4 minutes of Tom Paris the father!