picard's attitude in "sins of the father"

[sonak]

I find Picard's attitude in this episode kind of strange. I mean, he's certainly supportive of Worf, but shouldn't he find the idea of dishonor being passed generationally an unenlightened and barbaric attitude? The Prime Directive is not an issue, the Klingons are a technologically advanced culture and a Federation ally.

Picard might not wish to offend Worf or seem judgmental, but I think it's odd that this does not even get a MENTION considering Picard's love of speechmaking anyway.

Ditto for "Redemption," when he once again passes up an opportunity to comment on how ridiculous the idea of holding Worf responsible for his father's actions is.

 

[DanCPA]

He understands that nothing he says to Worf, or the empire, will change their views on honor

 

[Timo]

To be sure, Picard isn't really in the habit of making speeches about how primitive and barbaric some alien (and usually also 20th century human) practice is.

If the story calls for such blatant explication of the allegory, it's one of Picard's subordinates (typically Worf, actually!) who gets to laugh at the natives, and Picard's role usually is to tell "Now, now, let's not get too excited. They have the right to be like they are, and we aren't necessarily any better." and so forth.

There are few times where Picard would express contempt outright, except as a witty retort when being directly insulted by a representative of the repungant philosophy. Picard frequently loathes Q's ethics, but outside this, he's only dissed a very small number of adversaries. The evil slime of "Skin of Evil" and the greedy thieves of "Starship Mine" are in that select lot, but not too many others. Picard can tolerate the Ferengi just fine, for example.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Kegek]

There are few times where Picard would express contempt outright, except as a witty retort when being directly insulted by a representative of the repungant philosophy. Picard frequently loathes Q's ethics, but outside this, he's only dissed a very small number of adversaries. The evil slime of "Skin of Evil" and the greedy thieves of "Starship Mine" are in that select lot, but not too many others. Picard can tolerate the Ferengi just fine, for example.

And the distinction between these examples and, say, the Ferengi and Klingons is that they are individuals. Armus, the mercenaries, and Q are individuals rather than societies (making allowances for the Q Continuum, Q was mainly just depicted as Picard's quasi-omnipotent verbal sparring partner rather than the representative of a society).