He’s got a man sized head.Genuinely curious... how can you tell this just from the picture??
(I didn't realize while watching the episode that Thad was wearing a little Starfleet romper... how adorable!)
Spoilers On the subject of Riker/Troi's kid
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Maybe the picture was taken when Admiral Picard and the Rikers visited Captain Worf on the Enterprise.
That photo of Picard and Baby Thad is the cutest thing to ever grace Star Trek
Well, going back to my theory they could be models of ships Riker served on, we know Riker served on two Excelsior class ships. Would it be impossible to insert an Ambassador class in there somewhere?
The USS Excalibur 
It's impossible to tell the gender or sex of a baby that age. And it doesn't matter what kind of actor/model played the baby in that photo either.
It's possible that he was sweating heavily or that he wrestled and drowned the wolf in order to protect the family, or as revenge.
It was Thad who had the linguistic gift (he invented all the languages). Kestra's only special abilities seen so far are badass bunnicorn hunting, fashion sense, and love for her family. She has only learned and uses Viveen, the language of the Wild Girls of the Woods... But it was invented by her elder brother.
Deleted scenes aren't canon though. Saavik half-Romulan, Saavik pregnant with Spock's kid, E-E First Officer Martin Madden, etc. Just because they originally considered including a version where she drowned, it was then deliberately directed and produced, edited, sound edited, and then released in such a way that makes the wolf attack the much more plausible explanation for Kestra's death.
Wow. Undeterred. 
The wolf is just symbolism for the threat to her safety and life. She drowned.
Well, it appears we have another entry for the "fastest contradicted novel" thread.
No.
You have to be kidding right? Again no. The wolf is a symbolic image designed to by Lwaxana's mind to keep Troi out. Troi says this herself:
ROI: That's right. A child might represent vulnerability. Hedril may depict some fragile part of my mother.
PICARD: A part that she's protecting. You said that everything you encountered when you were in her mind was a barrier of one kind or another.
TROI: Yes. You, the wolf, my father. It was though she were summoning all her defences to keep me away. But keep me away from what? What is she protecting?
Not sure whether you're trolling or whether you actually believe this nonsense.
If dreams and visions experienced by Star Trek characters were meant to be taken literally then it would be very likely that every bit of Star Trek since "The Cage(TOS)" has been a direct or at least indirect result of a mid-20th century science fiction magazine writer inventing a 24th century space station. Everything we'd have seen over the past half-century of the franchise would be a fantasy from the mind of Benny Russell. 
If dreams and visions experienced by Star Trek characters were meant to be taken literally then it would be very likely that every bit of Star Trek since "The Cage(TOS)" has been a direct or at least indirect result of a mid-20th century science fiction magazine writer inventing a 24th century space station. Everything we'd have seen over the past half-century of the franchise would be a fantasy from the mind of Benny Russell.
And Troi is actually made out of cake.
And Noonien Soong would have built Data using little more than an anvil and a hammer. 
What would it take to convince you then? The word of Les Landau, the director of Dark Page? Unfortunately, I can't find his contact details anywhere. I don't even know if he's still alive.
Okay, but for what reason is there to assume Thad Riker was a transgender person besides an attempt to be consistent with a continuity this show has already proved to be inconsistent with?
Granted, I've never been in this situation and hope never to be, but I don't think one's reaction to seeing their child eaten by a wolf is to wrestle with the wolf, drag it to a nearby lake, and drown it. But I'll accept no one really knows how they'll react until they actually are in this situation.
With mint frosting.And Troi is actually made out of cake.
