no but can we talk about ds9 & its depiction of black fatherhood on tv in the 90s? in its first 5 minutes it establishes ben and jake's relationship as the most important in the show and never minimizes it. it is beautiful and powerful and we don't talk about it enough!!!
Avery Brooks actually fought extremely hard for this. If I remember correctly he was very passionate about having this great example of what black fatherhood was/is vs how it's been portrayed forever. I won't spoil the ending if you're not there yet, but he had them rewrite part of it to adhere to that.
What's always been kind of amusing to me is, Star Trek is a franchise just filled with examples of bad fathers. Yet, while most TV & movies were full of terrible examples of black fatherhood, over half of the good dads we know anything about on Star Trek were black or POC.
Worf was a terrible father, truth be told. He did mean well - he certainly didn't intentionally give the kid abandonment & daddy issues - but he kinda really messed that kid up. He was too messed up himself to be raising a kid, I think. Bashir's dad sucked, & Riker's and B'Elanna's dads both walked out on them. Odo's "dad" was arguably abusive, & definitely a gaslighter.
Then there's Dukat: he planned on murdering 2 of his kids, & actually attempted to murder the baby. He walked away from his 7 legitimate kids - though they were probably better off without his narcissistic ass - in favor of Ziyal. The one he actually loved was the codependent kid who boosted his narcissistic ego, to whom he lied constantly, & who he endlessly manipulated & intermittently abandoned. I only put him below Sarek because indications are he wasn't home enough to fuck his kids up too badly
Which brings us to the 2 worst fathers in the franchise: Enabran Tain & Sarek of Vulcan.
Sarek messed his kids up so badly that his oldest grew up to be a cult leader, & his youngest had lifelong daddy & identity issues. Spock was intermittently estranged from Sarek for his entire life, because Sarek kept picking political fights with him, disapproved of pretty much all of Spock's choices (& made certain that disapproval was known), & acted like Spock was never Vulcan enough for his ass. Which, if that was gonna be a problem for him, why did he breed with a human woman to start with!? Maddening; no wonder Spock avoided dealing with him & his bullshit as much as he could.
Then there's Garak's sperm donor, who was frankly just a monster. He abused him, belittled him, manipulated him, denied him any love or even acknowledgment, left him begging for the slightest scraps of conditional affection, basically fucked him up in every possible way short of molesting him - as far as we know, anyway, & I wouldn't put that past him, either. He induced claustrophobia in the poor man when he was just a little boy. He cut him off from both himself, & his entire society, for his 1st mistake, & then tried to kill him. He died still unwilling to call Garak "son," even after Garak begged him to.
After that endless shitshow, anyone would look good, but Sisko was wonderful dad by any metric, & so was Sisko's dad. We didn't actually see Tuvok interact with his kids much, but the way he spoke about them made it obvious that he loved them dearly. And he was actually pretty good with kids in general. Chakotay's dad was a loving father, too.
The only white guy who was actually a good father that we ever see is O'Brien; although the girl spent much more time with her mother, a lot of that was just the circumstances. Well, I suppose Troi always spoke well of her dad, so that's 2. The only other good dad is Rom.