• autonomous@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Worf was great with O’Brien’s kid. 🤷‍♂️

    His relationship with Alexander was about what you would expect when you just find out you even had a kid and then your partner dies right in front of the two of you before you’ve had the slightest chance to bond, as well as the challenges of being an Autistic dad to a child with ADHD. 🤷‍♂️

    • El_guapazo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      In cultural context, worf was a probably a progressive dad. But his kid was even more human than he.

    • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
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      6 months ago

      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 oversight that feels really glaring on a second watch through.

      So mathematically, Worf is the worst absent father imaginable.

    • data1701d (He/Him)@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      6 months ago

      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.

    • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months 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.

      • jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

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

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

      • kaitco@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months 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.

  • AGD4@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

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

  • Azathoth@kbin.run
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    6 months ago

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

    • Blackout@kbin.run
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      6 months 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@kbin.run
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        6 months ago

        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.caEnglish
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          6 months ago

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

  • chuckleslord@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months 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

  • mercano@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months 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.

    • thejoker954@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      The Ferengi culture being what it is/was really elevates Rom’s parenting to s-tier. Pretty much as soon as he realized things could be different and he could break the cycle he does.

      And Nog for sure gets the ‘Best Son’ award. Nog getting Rom to become an engineer lets him shine so bright he gets Leeta which leads him to becoming a Grand Nagus who is willing to try and make the Ferengi a better people.