Whew! For a moment there, it looked as if Picard was going to be a player in the "count the immediate relative" stakes. Let's see now, Riker has a father and I suppose we must count his transporter accident double as a relative, so that's two for him. Worf has a brother and a son, but I don't count his parents as they are foster parents, so he has two too. Troi famously has her mother, Beverly and Wesley have each other, so they all have one each. Geordi had a mother, but she's on the missing list, a plot line that was never fully explored in my opinion, but he still has his father and sister Ariana, so he's only got two as well. Data, though, has had a brother, a daughter and a mother. I make that three. Admittedly they were/are artificial life-forms, but they are still relatives, are they not?
This show it seems that we are back in the bottle again. Save money! Save money!
And it's still a bad time to be a parent, even if it turns out that you're not, if you see what I mean.
There is one concept crucial to the show that I find difficult to believe, namely that in the 24th century they still don't have an effective contraceptive, or if they do, Picard and his girlfriend didn't use it. Hmmmm. Bearing in mind the number of drug companies beavering away at gaining a chunk of the tremendous profits to be made from a safe and successful contraceptive, does this really seem likely?
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