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| 1078.2 | Retitled? | DECCXL::WIBECAN | That's the way it is, in Engineering! | Thu Feb 13 1997 11:23 | 4 |
| 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
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| 1078.1 | Episode info from startrek.msn.com | DECCXL::WIBECAN | That's the way it is, in Engineering! | Thu Mar 13 1997 17:41 | 35 |
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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.
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| 1078.2 | men as toast | VAXUUM::KEEFE | | Mon Mar 24 1997 09:45 | 8 |
| 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.
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| 1078.3 | Need a large volume | BASEX::EISENBRAUN | John Eisenbraun | Mon Mar 24 1997 12:40 | 6 |
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> ...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.
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| 1078.4 | | skylab.zko.dec.com::FISHER | Gravity: Not just a good idea. It's the law! | Fri Mar 28 1997 12:19 | 8 |
| 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
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| 1078.5 | | DECCXL::WIBECAN | That's the way it is, in Engineering! | Fri Mar 28 1997 14:43 | 9 |
| >> 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
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| 1078.6 | | CSC32::HADDOCK | Pas Fini! | Fri Mar 28 1997 16:43 | 9 |
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political humor:
What started out to be a MaleChauvanestPig's dream turned out to
be a "Feminint's" dream" %^}
fred();
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| 1078.7 | | skylab.zko.dec.com::FISHER | Gravity: Not just a good idea. It's the law! | Mon Mar 31 1997 13:03 | 6 |
| >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
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| 1078.8 | | DECCXL::WIBECAN | That's the way it is, in Engineering! | Mon Mar 31 1997 15:47 | 20 |
| >> 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
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