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Conference 7.286::star_trek

Title:STAR TREK
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Moderator:DECCXX::WIBECAN
Created:Mon Feb 10 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
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1078.0. "ST:VOY - Favorite Son" by DECCXL::WIBECAN (That's the way it is, in Engineering!) Thu Feb 13 1997 14:19

This topic is for discussion of the STAR TREK: VOYAGER episode entitled
"Favorite Son."

[Season 3, episode 20]
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1078.2Retitled?DECCXL::WIBECANThat's the way it is, in Engineering!Thu Feb 13 1997 14:234
I *think* this episode is retitled from "Real Life," so I'll treat it as such.
I'll move the notes around if this turns out to be an invalid assumption.

						Brian
1078.1Episode info from startrek.msn.comDECCXL::WIBECANThat's the way it is, in Engineering!Thu Mar 13 1997 20:4135
                  Favorite Son 
                  Production: 162 
                  First Showing: 3/19/97 
                                                                    
Starring: 
     Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway 
     Robert Beltran as Chakotay 
     Roxann Biggs-Dawson as B'Elanna Torres 
     Jennifer Lien as Kes 
     Robert Duncan McNeill as Lt. Tom Paris 
     Robert Picardo as the Doctor 
     Ethan Phillips as Neelix 
     Tim Russ as Tuvok 
     Garrett Wang as Harry Kim 

Guest Stars: 
     Cari Shayne as Eliann 
     Deborah May as Lyris 
     Patrick Fabian as Taymon 
     Kelli Kirkland as Rinna 
     Kristanna Loken as Malia 

Written by: Lisa Klink 

Directed by: Marvin Rush 

After Ensign Kim suddenly exhibits abnormal behavior, he instinctively leads
the U.S.S. Voyager to a mysterious planet, the Taresian homeworld.
There, a shocking story of his birth is told by members of the almost
exclusively female population -- Kim is part alien -- and they want him for
reproductive purposes. 

This episode carries a "TV PG" parental guideline.

1078.2men as toastVAXUUM::KEEFEMon Mar 24 1997 12:458
    Where was Zsa Zsa Gabor. Doesn't she rule this planet?
    And why...
    
    ...did the poor guy get desiccated. I didn't follow the explanation,
    mumble mumble need more DNA. Isn't that what sperm is for? Couldn't
    you squeeze more DNA out of somebody with forty years of good
    treatment, than one night of ecstasy that turns him into a dead raisin.
     
1078.3Need a large volumeBASEX::EISENBRAUNJohn EisenbraunMon Mar 24 1997 15:406
>    
>    ...did the poor guy get desiccated. I didn't follow the explanation,
    
    Well, it wouldn't have been much of a plot without it.  The explanation
    was that they needed a large volume of DNA, I guess all at once, so
    getting small amounts over a long period of time wouldn't have done it.
1078.4skylab.zko.dec.com::FISHERGravity: Not just a good idea. It's the law!Fri Mar 28 1997 15:198
This has to rank right up their in the annals of terrible Trek episodes with
"Spock's Brain"!  And speaking of TOS, wouldn't Kirk have felt right at home in
this episode.  Except he would have escaped by giving them a lecture about how
his species has to be free to explore.

Sigh.

Burns
1078.5DECCXL::WIBECANThat's the way it is, in Engineering!Fri Mar 28 1997 17:439
>> This has to rank right up their in the annals of terrible Trek episodes with
>> "Spock's Brain"!

But, but, but...  Spock's Brain was one of my favorite episodes!

Reminded me of a (Twilight Zone?  Outer Limits?) episode I never saw called "To
Serve Man."  Would you like fries with that?

						Brian
1078.6CSC32::HADDOCKPas Fini!Fri Mar 28 1997 19:439
    
    political humor:
    


    What started out to be a MaleChauvanestPig's dream turned out to
    be a "Feminint's" dream"  %^}

    fred();
1078.7skylab.zko.dec.com::FISHERGravity: Not just a good idea. It's the law!Mon Mar 31 1997 16:036
>But, but, but...  Spock's Brain was one of my favorite episodes!

Ok, ok.  How about the O.K. Corral one?  Or the TNG one where they were stuck
in this Hotel reliving some cheesy book?

Burns
1078.8DECCXL::WIBECANThat's the way it is, in Engineering!Mon Mar 31 1997 18:4720
>> Ok, ok.  How about the O.K. Corral one?  Or the TNG one where they were stuck
>> in this Hotel reliving some cheesy book?

Those were good ones, too, IMHO.  How about that stupid one about the tribbles?
:-)

Actually, I don't recall disliking any TOS episode when I first saw them 30
years ago.  I've had some reservations about some of them more recently, after
seeing them with an adult viewpoint.  The TNG episode "Encounter At Farpoint"
withered in my estimation after seeing it again years later, too.  The tribbles
episode ranks at or near the bottom, in my opinion, despite what the viewer
survey says.

...along with "Favorite Son."  Although it had a weirdly charming campy feeling
to it; the episode you love to watch because it's so bizarre.  Reminded me of
the Harlan Ellison (I think) movie, "A Boy And His Dog" (remember the
underground society in that one), along with the aforementioned "To Serve Man."
I suppose everything reminds me of something else.  Which reminds me...

						Brian