Later in the episode, Geordi says he is disappointed in himself for not having jumped at the chance to help his friends the way the younger Geordi would have. But Geordi’s own past comes back to haunt him: Sidney considers the Titan crew to be her family, just as Geordi did with the Enterprise’s. The implication from Sidney in her confrontation with her father is that Geordi was hard on her because she chose to be a pilot instead of an engineer - as if that decision had been a specific rejection of him. And so another close friend of Jean-Luc’s has told him that he poses a risk to their children. This is a stinging rejoinder to Jean-Luc’s call for help. “I can’t help you and protect them,” Geordi tells Jean-Luc. Now, he just wants to keep his kids and himself safe. Geordi has done his part to save the galaxy. But as a parent, when you’re responsible for someone who didn’t ask to be born, the calculations change. When they are younger and childless, they feel free to be reckless. Geordi’s arc is like that of many people who become parents. But you’ve just knowingly put my daughter in grave danger.” When has it not been? Which was fine back in the day when I chose to put my life under your command. When Jean-Luc mentions that their precarious situation is “life or death,” Geordi tartly replies: “It’s always life or death, Jean-Luc. This is an apt line, especially when you remember that the reason Beverly never told Jean-Luc about Jack was because Jean-Luc attracts trouble.
“Leave it to you, Jean-Luc, to turn fatherhood into an intergalactic incident,” Geordi tells Jean-Luc.
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