http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/deep-space-nine-revolutionary-depiction-of-black-fatherhood.html
Still my favorite ST show. I need to rewatch it.
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Deep Space Nine Is TV’s Most Revolutionary Depiction of Black Fatherhood (Vulture)
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http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/deep-space-nine-revolutionary-depiction-of-black-fatherhood.html
Still my favorite ST show. I need to rewatch it.
I swear they wrote Jake and Rom like they were suppose to be 6 years old instead of pre/teens
I think that was on purpose for Rom, but there is no excuse for Jake.
Yeah but he makes up for it later.
"The Visitor" is one of the best father/son centric episodes. Even if that's mostly because of Tony Todd's depiction of Jake. Still, that's a tear jerker of an episode.
It's a lot less revolutionary when you realize it takes place in the 24th century. I expect we'll be getting parenting right a lot more often by then. :p
I really liked the episode where they made the early bajoran craft and sailed it to Cardassian space.
I really liked the episode where they made the early bajoran craft and sailed it to Cardassian space.
I let it slide because Rom and his dad really grow to be so much more then they had any right to be. On a lesser show they would have been eternal butts of jokes.
The dominion war really brought a lot of background characters forward. Really what you want from a show based at a station.
That episode where sisko is in a time loop and Jake spends his entire life trying to save him...
The episode where Rom deals with PTSD and the hologram tells him he can't stay in a holodeck forever, is one of my favorites.
I've never seen any Star Trek show but can you really nominate it as a "revolutionary depiction of black fatherhood" in a universe where inter human racism is a thing of the past and systemic oppression of poor and marginalized minorities doesn't exist either. Could you even categorize "black culture" as a contemporary thing in Star Trek?
I suppose the character being the played by a black actor and the portrayal of fatherhood through him might transcend the fictional universe and inform our real world. I suppose that could be revolutionary in of itself...
I suppose the character being the played by a black actor and the portrayal of fatherhood through him might transcend the fictional universe and inform our real world. I suppose that could be revolutionary in of itself...
The depiction of black fatherhood isn't something I think is being linked here to cultural identity so much as being a good father while also being black. Which IMHO is far more important a depiction than the idea of needing there to be a specific culture surrounding it. Better more black characters don't fall into specific molds IMHO.
I was never envious of that father son relationship, but I did bask in the glow of it and enjoy its warmth. I always appreciated that Ben just wanted Jake to find his path, his own choice. The episode where older Jake felt that he had failed his father was heartbreaking.
Honestly it's one of the best depictions of a father/son relationship in television period. It's been mentioned already but the episode where Jake spends his entire life trying to bring his dad back, finally succeeding, is tremendous.
Best part about Sisko was his ability to show affection to his son. At work he was a blowhard with no particular skills to back it up, but he was sure a sucker for kids.
As the creator of the first DS9 topic here, yes it is. I don't think I can ever give enough praise to how fantastic DS9's characters were. I didn't care much for it, but as time progresses, Jake's desire for the Arts, Nogs interactions in following closer to Sisko, and Jake's and Sisko overall relationship from caretaker to equal.
