Fortunate Son
- Episode aired Nov 21, 2001
- TV-PG
- 45m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
1.9K
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Enterprise is sent to help the freighter Fortunate after an attack. However, its first officer, Ryan, is hiding something.Enterprise is sent to help the freighter Fortunate after an attack. However, its first officer, Ryan, is hiding something.Enterprise is sent to help the freighter Fortunate after an attack. However, its first officer, Ryan, is hiding something.
Daniel Henson
- Boy
- (as Daniel Asa Henson)
Jef Ayres
- Crewman Haynem
- (uncredited)
Jane Bordeaux
- Female Crewmember
- (uncredited)
Mickey Cassidy
- ECS Fortunate Guard
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis episode was directed by LeVar Burton, who played Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987).
- GoofsThe end-of-transmission screen from Admiral Forrest references the signal as relayed from Relay: Echo 1/Transponder 4. A Relay that hadn't been deployed yet.
- Quotes
[Reed and Phlox are under fire]
Lieutenant Malcolm Reed: Get down!
Dr. Phlox: Under the circumstances, I defer to your experience.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Star Trek: Enterprise: Bound (2005)
- SoundtracksWhere My Heart Will Take Me
Written by Diane Warren
Performed by Russell Watson
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Ensign Mayweather plays captain Bellwether
I can't shake the feeling that this Enterprise crew is a bunch of amateurs. In contrast to the crews of the TNG and VOY series, there are definitely no explorers and scientists at work here. Space anomalies? Not interested! Charting stars? Boring! Diplomacy? Something for losers! This crew doesn't have an ounce of tact. Like a couple of cowboys from the American provinces. The ensign simply chats into the captain's speech without being asked to do so. The captain is a complete joke anyway. He could maybe play captain on a shrimp boat. But on the Enterprise? Speaking of boats: The entire Enterprise set seems to me like I'm watching a submarine crew. Those blue overalls, those controls... it doesn't look like a spaceship.
The story of this episode is also complete nonsense. The idea of "Boomers" being born in space, traveling the stars on freighters and being a secretive community of swashbucklers who solve their own problems is just dumb. I just don't buy Mayweather's life story anyway. And his understanding of this freighter crew waging their own guerrilla war is also completely out of place in Star Trek. But Archer then plays space police and ensures law and order in the Alpha quadrant. USA! USA! USA!
The story of this episode is also complete nonsense. The idea of "Boomers" being born in space, traveling the stars on freighters and being a secretive community of swashbucklers who solve their own problems is just dumb. I just don't buy Mayweather's life story anyway. And his understanding of this freighter crew waging their own guerrilla war is also completely out of place in Star Trek. But Archer then plays space police and ensures law and order in the Alpha quadrant. USA! USA! USA!
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- Feb 20, 2024
Details
- Runtime45 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
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