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* David Marcus: Raised only by his mother, who went out of her way to keep him from his father until he was an adult. (Which gives us the [[Fridge Horror]] of realizing that while Kirk was warping around the galaxy earning our respect and admiration, he was arguably a deadbeat dad, though it's not exactly like he was receiving and ignoring repeated requests from Carol for child support, or anything.)

** Kirk is in Starfleet. As all of us ex-military people know there is only one way to keep Defense Finance from dinging your paycheck for child support whether you want it or not, and that's for nobody to ever tell the military about the kid's existence in the first place. Being a deadbeat dad while on active duty takes either unbelievable negligence on the part of the admin pukes or else a deliberate effort on the mother's part.