I find it strange that so rarely do we read a story about heroes and have much mention about their families -- at least not unless the family is directly central to the story. If they are present, it's usually because at some point the death of a parent will play a role in the narrative or their conflict will be part of the story. Very rarely is it because of the support and love of the parent.

I know I'm a minority here, but some of my favorite Star Trek episodes often dealt with family in sometimes goofy ways. It was fun. It was good to know the characters had families.

I'd like to bring family into Space Pawdyssey on occasion. I'd like for the characters to call home or visit their family. I'd like for those relationships to play a role at some point. This story is very character driven so it should give me ample opportunity to do that here and there. We've briefly seen Connor's Dad. We'll meet Rowan's at some point. Eventually the goal is to meet family members for each character. Oddly enough, out of the cast, I can't think of any character whose parents weren't loving -- even if they themselves were absent. I may even do a bit of a flashback to show Toby's family.

I would love to get Felix's family involved at some point if only because it's huge. Of all of the characters, he has the biggest family. I have no idea why that is -- it's just how it came to be in my mind.