Yeah, that was very sad and I could have done without it too. As a parent, I wouldn't want to even think of having to go to such extremes to save a child, ultimately to no avail. That one thing aside, however, I greatly enjoyed the episode. It was a quiet and introspective respite within an otherwise tumultuous mission.
Although, to be fair, TNG's entire cast was pretty cursed from the beginning:
- Picard: A front-to-back career man who never had time for a family of his own, ultimately to lose whatever family he had in a fire, including his young nephew. Lost his first command and best friend in the process, plus much of his crew on the Stargazer.
- Riker: Dead mom and an asshole dad whose only way to win at some goofy-ass quasi-martial art with oversized Q-tips was to cheat.
- Troi: Dead dad and rocky relationship with Riker prior to service on the Enterprise, an equally-rocky subsequent relationship with Worf, as well as an unknown dead sister and less-than-stable control freak of a mother.
- Worf: Both parents dead. Wife dead. Kid who hates his guts.
- Geordi: Starfleet brat. Mom MIA whose fate was later discovered, plus abysmal relationship history and questionable infatuation with holodeck simulation of a real person (yet saw fit to hypocritically ridicule Barclay for doing pretty much the same thing).
- Data: Noonian Soong, "mom", Lore, Lal, B4, etc. 'Nuff said...
- Beverly: Dead husband and shit-ton of baggage over it.
- Wesley: Dead dad and shit-ton of baggage over it.
- Tasha: Dead parents, lived life as an orphan trying to constantly escape from "rape gangs", hated by her sister for leaving Turkana IV "like a coward", only to eventually die at the hands (nubs?) of a tar-covered trash bag.
I won't even get into the dysfunctional natures of the crews on DS9 & VOY.
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