What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Shawnster]

I guess birth control in the future is still unreliable or Picard's Borg implants ruined his vasectomy

The implication from GEN is Picard was sterile.

PICARD: I'd come to feel that René was as close as I would get to having a child of my own.
TROI: Your family history is very important to you, isn't it?
PICARD: Right. Oh, ...from being a small child, I can remember being told about the family line. The Picard who fought at Trafalgar. The Picard who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry. The Picard's who settled the first Martian colony. When Robert married and had a son, I...
TROI: ...You felt it was no longer your responsibility to carry on the family line.
PICARD: Right. Yes. That's it exactly. You know, Counselor, Recently I've become very much aware that there are fewer days ahead than there are behind. ...But I took comfort from the fact that ...the family would go on. But now there'll be no more Picards.

René was as close as Picard felt he would come to having a son. There will be no more Picards. Why is that, unless Picard was somehow incapable of fathering a child.

 

[BillJ]

Why is that, unless Picard was somehow incapable of fathering a child

Picard may not want children.

 

[Yuri Nikolayev]

TMP isn’t that great, and “The Inner Light” isn’t that good.

 

[Jayson1]

I don't think Picard is suppose to be seen as sterile. The idea was he was now to old to really have a family because he choose to dedicate his life to having a career in Starfleet and he was one of those officers who felt they couldn't do both things. Having a family would interfere in his career.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I guess birth control in the future is still unreliable or Picard's Borg implants ruined his vasectomy

Or the Borg Implants undid his Vasectomy.

We did see Borg Nurseries in the Borg Cube.

You wonder how Babies appear in the Borg Nurseries.

Connect the dots.

They can easily mass produce babies between compatible species.

 

[CoveTom]

TMP isn’t that great, and “The Inner Light” isn’t that good.

I would say "The Inner Light" isn't bad, but it isn't as good as it's held up to be. It's certainly not normally one that is on my rewatch list.

However, I disagree with you strongly about TMP.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

The implication from GEN is Picard was sterile.

Not remotely.

 

[cooleddie74]

He was just so devoted to his uniform and career that he had locked himself out of having a family. Kirk alludes to it in the Nexus when he brings up that he himself couldn't see past his own uniform, and it got him nothing but an empty house.

 

[Shawnster]

Picard may not want children.

Then he's really not as worried about the Picard line ending with Rene as he's letting on in that scene.

 

[FredH]

Picard may not want children.

My assumption was always that he’d chosen Starfleet, and was uncomfortable with children. He’d have maybe liked to eventually raise a family, but it just never happened— and once Rene was born he no longer felt a nagging responsibility to for the sake of the family. But then came the fire.

 

[BillJ]

Then he's really not as worried about the Picard line ending with Rene as he's letting on in that scene.

Why would we be receiving a clear emotional message from someone who just lost their brother and nephew?

 

[Nyotarules]

The implication from GEN is Picard was sterile.

PICARD: I'd come to feel that René was as close as I would get to having a child of my own.
TROI: Your family history is very important to you, isn't it?
PICARD: Right. Oh, ...from being a small child, I can remember being told about the family line. The Picard who fought at Trafalgar. The Picard who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry. The Picard's who settled the first Martian colony. When Robert married and had a son, I...
TROI: ...You felt it was no longer your responsibility to carry on the family line.
PICARD: Right. Yes. That's it exactly. You know, Counselor, Recently I've become very much aware that there are fewer days ahead than there are behind. ...But I took comfort from the fact that ...the family would go on. But now there'll be no more Picards.

René was as close as Picard felt he would come to having a son. There will be no more Picards. Why is that, unless Picard was somehow incapable of fathering a child.

Or he never wanted children and was planning on not having any. Besides a family of 'no more Picards' unless his father's side came from a long line of one child only families, or only the females in the family had children and never used their mothers' last name, it was a strange thing to say.
I would hope by the 24th century the human woman changing their name thing when married or their children having their partner's surname, would be a choice, not an expectation.
Maybe all his paternal first, second and third cousins were female.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Or he never wanted children and was not planning on having any. Besides a family of 'no more Picard's' unless his father's side came from a long line of one child only families, or only the females in the family had children and never used their mothers' last name, it was a strange thing to say.
I would hope by the 24th century the woman changing their name thing when married or their children having their partner's surname, would be a choice, not an expectation.
Maybe all his paternal first, second and third cousins were female.

For all the complications with Last Names in Human History
The Klingon system of (Son/Daughter) of Biological (Father/Mother) is a far more sensible solution and more accurate system.
One that other species can learn from.

 

[FormerLurker]

The Scots have been known to do something very similar to that.

 

[The Wormhole]

You wonder how Babies appear in the Borg Nurseries.

Because the Borg assimilated babies.

René was as close as Picard felt he would come to having a son. There will be no more Picards. Why is that, unless Picard was somehow incapable of fathering a child.

Then he's really not as worried about the Picard line ending with Rene as he's letting on in that scene.

It was a reflection of the fact that the life he lived didn't result in children at that point and he had no reason to believe children were a possibility in his future because of that life. And as noted, it was an emotional moment.

Besides, if Picard were sterile, how could he have believed a year earlier there was any possibility that Jason Vigo was his biological son? Were Picard sterile, he should have seen through DaiMon Bok's fraud right away.

 

[korblborp]

but then the Klingon's have Houses, which is like a last name

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Then he's really not as worried about the Picard line ending with Rene as he's letting on in that scene.

That would be patently absurd, since he's clearly devastated by the loss of his nephew. He's facing a reality he was unprepared to face, and the door was opened to it by a tragedy he never expected to happen.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

but then the Klingon's have Houses, which is like a last name

Sort of, I'd argue it's closer to a Clan than a simple last name.

For the Great Houses, only the 24 Most Powerful Houses gets to be on the Klingon High Council.

The Vast Majority of Kllingon Houses aren't represented on the Klingon High Council.

That's why a Renowned / (In)Famous Klingon like Worf can join 'House Martok' despite being Dishonored by being 'The Son of Mogh' & from the 'House of Mogh' that descended from Klingon Nobility.

 

[korblborp]

that's just adoption

 

[gweeps]

Given Lower Decks showing an alternate reality with Discovery era Klingons, I conclude Strange New Worlds is in an alternate reality, but one that is very similar to the Prime universe.