You know you’re a shit parent, when Gul Dukat is a better parent than you… Worf…
Lmao. Somehow Paris with his bastardized mutant offspring qualifies him as a better dad than Worf.
Tom and B’Elanna, not Tom and Janeway.
Sarek is on there. Really. Sarek. The first one. Sarek was an awful dad to at minimum three children.
Well he did convince Kirk to go rescue his son after they shot him into a planet. That’s big dad love there.
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.
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. 🤷♂️
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.
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.
Wait, is worf a bad dad? I’m not super deep in the fandom…
In cultural context, worf was a probably a progressive dad. But his kid was even more human than he.
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.
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.
@Lwaxana oh come on, Worf did his best with what he had
what he had
The full support and resources of star fleet and the federation?
