Fortunate Son

This Story: Season 1 Episode 10 (production code 110)
ENT Overall: Episode 10
Trek Overall: Story 601, Episode 638
Airdate: 21 Nov 2001
Written by James Duff
Directed by LeVar Burton

Notes

• Running Decon Gel Scene Appearances: Trip (1), T’Pol (1) – none this episode.
• This second of ten episodes of Enterprise directed by LeVar Burton.
• This episode was written by James Duff who would become an executive producer on Star Trek Discovery (season two), and Star Trek: Picard (season one).
• A working title for this script is “Untitled Boomer Story”.
• The inside of the ECS Fortunate was just Enterprise sets redressed.
• This episode is the first in universe meeting with the Nausicans who have appeared in other incarnations before.
• This episode establishes that two other NX class ships are scheduled to be built (besides Enterprise).  We got to see one of them eventually (the NX-02 Columbia) as it appears in four episodes (starting with the season finale from Series 2).
• First Officer Ryan was played by Lawrence Monoson.  He was also Hovath in the DS9 episode “The Storyteller“.
• A Nausican prisoner was placed by D. Elliot Woods.  He was also an unnamed Starfleet officer in Star Trek: Insurrection, as well as an unnamed Klingon officer in the DS9 episode “Sons of Mogh“.
• Shaw is played by Kieran Mulroney.  He was also Benzan in the TNG episode “The Outrageous Okona“.  He is the real life brother of Dermot Mulroney.
• The Nausicaan captain was played by Danny Goldring.  He was also Legate Kell in DS9’s “Civil Defense“, Chief Burke in DS9’s “Nor the Battle to the Strong“, Karr in both parts of “The Killing Game“, and a Takret Captain in the episode “The Catwalk“.
• Keene was played by Charles Lucia.  He was also Ves Alkar in TNG’s “Man of the People” as well as Mabus in Voyager’s “Alliances“.

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