Sisko's a good choice that I won't put up much of an argument about... but the end of "What You Leave Behind" is a sticking point. One of Sisko's kids thinks he's a great dad, but the other
I still say they should have just had Sisko quietly return. Given that when he walked with the Prophets, he was timeless, able to see the universe from Big Bang to Big Chill... he could learn everything he needed to know and still be there to welcome the latest addition to the family.
Yeah, it's too bad the production didn't heed Brooks' wish to not be the dad who goes to the corner store for smokes and never comes back.
Mr. Brooks had it right. DS9 made very few mistakes, but I think that was one.
We didn't get to see much of it, but Tom Paris seems like he probably would have been a great father.
Harry said it best:
"She's going to have a great life. Piloting a ship from your lap, battling Doctor Chaotica on the holodeck..."
As Ishka said, Rom was like Keldar. And Keldar might not have been aces at business, but he understood the meaning of family. Hopefully if Quark eventually got married, he did too.
He *was* a father. Tom had a litter of salamander like children with Captain Janeway… and he abandoned them all.
Here's a thought... they sent a team of Voyager's B-list redshirts down to catch the little guys. But they accidentally squished one, fried another because
oops, that phaser wasn't set to stun after all... and couldn't find the third amid all the other lifeforms on that swamp planet. So finally Chakotay said "screw this, we're out of here."
QUOTE: Jokes aside, how about Data during his brief experience as a father with his daughter Lal?
I believe I gave our non-paranoid android a well deserved shout-out for his brief turn as a dad to Lal. He was also a good mentor to Timothy in "Hero Worship".
And a good kitty-daddy to Spot.
