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Star Trek Ent - Season 1 - Episode 10

Star Trek Ent - 1x10 - Fortunate Son

Originally Aired: 2001-11-21

Synopsis:
Enterprise must intervene when the leader of a human freighter crew sets out for revenge against alien pirates. [DVD]

My Rating - 5

Fan Rating Average - 4.74

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Problems
- Travis says that even with a warp 3 engine that a 5 year trip at warp 1.8 would be cut down to 6 months. Close, but no cigar. The figure is actually closer to 12 months.

Factoids
- According to Travis, there are 3 more NX class ships on the drawing boards.

Remarkable Scenes
- The low gravity football scene.
- Ryan regarding the transporter: "They say that for a split second you can actually feel yourself in both places at once."
- T'Pol covering for the kid playing hide and seek.
- Ryan betraying the crew of Enterprise.
- Enterprise saving the Fortunate.

My Review
Another fairly good offering from Enterprise, using the prequel premise well. We're shown that fear of change extends well into the 22nd century. The "boomers" are quite set in their ways, for "warp 1.8 is good enough." We're shown that the boomers running cargo get attacked by pirates occasionally, in this case the Nausicaans. It makes sense that long periods of time alone would cause the boomers to develop their own (closed) culture and their unwillingness to receive help from their own people seems like a natural result of their isolation. I was pleased to see the episode make rather extensive use of Travis, a character I felt was being underused. I just hope his extensive experience in space starts to pay off some more, instead of constantly relying on T'Pol's Vulcan database.

The following are comments submitted by my readers.

  • From themadworld on 2013-12-12 at 8:54am:
    One of the interesting things about this episode – maybe something that could have been drawn on more – was a parallel I saw between the Federation's attitude toward the Vulcans and the "boomers" attitude toward the Federation. Both are trying to prove themselves as independent from the larger, more powerful group.

    I really enjoyed this episode. 7/10

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