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[-] Azathoth@kbin.run 86 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Blackout@kbin.run 21 points 4 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 23 points 4 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.ca 7 points 4 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.

[-] Infynis@midwest.social 41 points 4 months ago
[-] dumbass@leminal.space 10 points 4 months ago

You know you're a shit parent, when Gul Dukat is a better parent than you.... Worf...

[-] AGD4@lemmy.world 41 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Carcel@lemmy.ml 32 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Tom and B'Elanna, not Tom and Janeway.

[-] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

Ohhhh, I thought comment OP was just racist against Klingons.

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 38 points 4 months ago
[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 28 points 4 months ago

I will let you decide how and whether this fits in here...

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[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 30 points 4 months ago

When you transport the rest of the pixels, I'll let you know.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 7 points 4 months ago

Someone is already working on it...

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One pixel at a time, apparently.

[-] mercano@lemmy.world 20 points 4 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.world 2 points 3 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.

[-] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

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

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 29 points 4 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.

[-] kaitco@lemmy.world 22 points 4 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.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

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

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

[-] Lwaxana@startrek.website 27 points 4 months ago

He is not great

[-] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

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

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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 oversights that feels really glaring on a second watch through.

So mathematically, Worf is the worst absent father imaginable.

[-] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 4 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.

[-] starkraving666@jorts.horse 9 points 4 months ago

@Lwaxana oh come on, Worf did his best with what he had

[-] Lwaxana@startrek.website 1 points 4 months ago

what he had

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

[-] askryan@startrek.website 5 points 4 months ago
[-] Corgana@startrek.website 1 points 4 months ago

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

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 months ago

Where's would Dr Song fit into all this?

[-] Jaccident@startrek.website 2 points 4 months ago

We saw 4 minutes of Tom Paris the father!

[-] autonomous@startrek.website 1 points 3 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. 🤷‍♂️

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Worf was as good of a father as he could have been to that whiny little shit

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