Picard's a father
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Oh man, I can't believe they actually did that. IMO that's way to predictable for me to even be able to like it.I'm going to put this in spoiler tags just in case, since I don't post in this forum often and I'm not sure how sensitive such things are up here...
According to Star Trek Online: The Needs of the Many, Jean-Luc and Beverly had a son: Rene Jacques Robert Francois Picard. And apparently he ends up marrying the daughter of Will and Deanna, which is kind of eye-roll worthy. Though I'll admit that I was expecting something like that to happen.
Yeah, that's my thought on it as well. Sure, their parents are all good friends, so it's fairly inevitable that they'd grow up as friends, but it's gives me something of a feeling like when you learn actors who play brother and sister characters on TV are dating, that it's not incest, but it feels like it. I'd much rather those two characters grow up feeling the other is like their brother/sister, but not actually marry. (Good thing TNotM isn't part of the main novel timeline...)
Or like David Tennant, the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who, dating Georgia Moffett, who played his (artificially created) "daughter" in one episode. And who is the real daughter of Peter Davison, who played an earlier incarnation of the Doctor.
Even better, Jean-Luc has to inform Little Picard down and says that since LP is a Picard, he will lose his hair before he loses his virginity.
He's the only kid at the daycare provider's who's wearing a toupée.
The way I see Picard is as a single, unmarried man, kind of a loner type. Of course there's the thing with Dr. Crusher, but that's not the Jean-Luc Picard I think of when I watch Star Trek: The Next Generation, Picard in his prime. I personally can't imagine Picard actually going that mile, helping give birth, and becoming a father. That's not to say that he would be a bad father though, he could be a great one, I'm sure.
But he is a single, married man.
But he is a single, married man.
Well, since (as KRAD pointed out in Perchance to Dream) he's got Locutus, Sarek, and Kamin rattling around in his head, I'm not sure that's true.
And Sarek and Kamin were both married, so it's doubly untrue.
(Though hopefully Jean-Luc will be a better father than Sarek. . .)
(Though hopefully Jean-Luc will be a better father than Sarek. . .)
I never saw Sarek as a bad father.
He was a typical stubborn Vulcan. Estranged from Spock for a time, yeah. But obviously still loved him (in a Vulcan way).
Oh man, I can't believe they actually did that. IMO that's way to predictable for me to even be able to like it.I'm going to put this in spoiler tags just in case, since I don't post in this forum often and I'm not sure how sensitive such things are up here...
According to Star Trek Online: The Needs of the Many, Jean-Luc and Beverly had a son: Rene Jacques Robert Francois Picard. And apparently he ends up marrying the daughter of Will and Deanna, which is kind of eye-roll worthy. Though I'll admit that I was expecting something like that to happen.
Oh, bloody hell...they SERIOUSLY did that?
Then again, it doesn't mean much, really. The Needs of the Many takes place in the ST:Online timeline, which is incompatible with the current Trek Literature timeline. So anything that TNOTM says doesn't have to "really" happen.
But he is a single, married man.
At least until the next transporter malfunction
I never saw Sarek as a bad father.
Good point. His logic was uncertain where his son was concerned.
Vulcan or not, I tend to agree with what Martok once said to Worf: When a father and his son won't speak to each other, there is trouble.
Maybe I'm just influenced by how close my dad and I were. I can't imagine not having his friendship.
Maybe I'm just influenced by how close my dad and I were. I can't imagine not having his friendship.
